Google is previewing a custody system that lets banks hold bitcoin, the NYSE's parent company is bringing Hyperliquid perps to the United States and Brazil's capital ran for the exits the day after Lula won a fourth term.

Marty Bent and Thomas Pacchia are live to talk about what institutions are building, what you give up when you let them hold the keys and why equity in the AI boom isn't the same thing as scarce money.

On today's show:

🔁 Last week, revisited: the cyber pandemic keeps spreading. Bitcoin Core fast-tracks fixes for bugs an LLM can find, and the Brotli bug reaches well beyond Node

🇧🇷 Brazil's Ibovespa fell 13.88% in a day and the real had its worst session in 25+ years. Why a digital bearer asset protects property rights

🧠 Calacanis says sell bitcoin for superintelligence. Meta's $95B raise and Trump's inflation comments show why equity isn't money

🏦 Google previews bitcoin-compatible MPC custody for banks. No seed, no unilateral control and how it compares to multisig

📈 ICE and Stan Druckenmiller back trade[XYZ] to bring 24/7 Hyperliquid perps onshore, with or without CLARITY

📉 Paul Kedrosky's gut check on the AI bull thesis: the first lab to stop training wins, and your index fund is a concentrated AI bet

⚠️ Electrum servers baited users into fee bumps that paid a thief. Update to 4.8.3 and run your own server. Plus the Keystone customer data leak

📺 People are using AI to rip spyware out of their TVs, an iPhone audit raises questions and an ad company turned ads into a spyware pipeline

🤖 Cohere caught an open-weight Qwen model reaching for a Beijing bucket, and AI labs say they refuted a 1999 complexity assumption. Bitcoin's crypto is untouched

🏛️ The Fed holds, two dissent for a hike and Warsh rewrites the meeting calendar

💸 Strategy spends $205M on STRC buybacks instead of bitcoin, and bitcoin loans need to beat HELOCs

🔓 Free Samourai: Keonne Rodriguez's Letter #8

Drop your questions in the chat. We'll get to as many as we can.

📰 Read the newsletters behind this episode:

Google and the NYSE's Owner Are Rebuilding the Rails: https://www.tftc.io/google-mpc-bitcoin-custody-ice-hyperliquid-institutional-adoption/

A Gut Check on the AI Bull Thesis: https://www.tftc.io/ai-capex-treadmill-kedrosky-first-lab-to-stop-training-wins/

Brazil, Calacanis and the Difference Between Equity and Money: https://www.tftc.io/brazil-capital-flight-calacanis-equity-vs-money/

Electrum Bug Exploited in the Wild, Disclosed and Patched: https://www.tftc.io/electrum-malicious-servers-fee-bump-attack/

People Are Using AI to Rip the Spyware Out of Their TVs: https://www.tftc.io/ai-hacking-smart-tvs-remove-spyware/

🎧 Paul Kedrosky on Hidden Forces: https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/the-most-dangerous-investment-cycle-in-history-paul-kedrosky/

🔓 Free Bill and Keonne: https://billandkeonne.org/

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AI helped researchers find a hole in PHP, the code running most of the web. The details leaked, and Cloudflare saw exploit attempts hit the millions within a day.

Marty Bent and Thomas Pacchia are live to ask whether the cyber pandemic is finally here, what Amazon's AI spending says about the slowdown, and why a water heater that mines bitcoin might be the most decentralized miner yet.

On today's show:

🔁 Last week, revisited: the OCC drops its yield presumption in the final GENIUS rule, and Anthropic's prospectus lands after its revenue slowdown

🛡️ PHP2Shell: AI found a decade-old flaw, it leaked early, and 2026 has already produced 21.7% of every CVE ever published

🔥 Heatbit's Bitwater: a water heater element with 20 mining chips that screws into the tank you already have

🤖 Amazon's AI spending took it free cash flow negative, with GPUs sitting in warehouses waiting on power. Bitcoin miners lived this in 2021.

📊 SpaceX's AI revenue is real, Anthropic's $80.7B loss is mostly paper, and the real question is revenue quality

📉 Black Monday never showed up, but bond convexity and the diesel squeeze did

🔑 Your API key is a bearer instrument: OpenCode, LiteLLM, Railway and a security checklist for the weekend

🪪 Someone opened a Cash App in her name and she's the one facing prison

💼 Wall Street keeps building ways to own bitcoin without owning bitcoin: BlackRock's PBIT and MSCI's new rule

⚡️ Tokens get cheaper, compute gets scarcer, and miners sit on the power

Drop your questions in the chat. We'll get to as many as we can.

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AI Found the Bug. Then It Leaked: https://www.tftc.io/php2shell-ai-vulnerabilities-cve-surge/

No Hedge on Earth: https://www.tftc.io/ai-slowdown-amazon-gpus-warehouses-no-hedge-on-earth/

Real Revenue, Paper Losses: https://www.tftc.io/spacex-anthropic-ai-revenue-quality/

Black Monday Never Showed Up: https://www.tftc.io/ten31-timestamp-black-monday-ai-bonds-diesel/

🔥 Heatbit Bitwater: https://heatbit.com/pages/bitwater

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Bank of America admitted it willfully broke the Bank Secrecy Act for seven years, paid $1.2 billion and nobody is going to jail. The Samourai Wallet devs wrote software that never touched a dime of anyone's money and they're sitting in federal prison.

Marty Bent and Thomas Pacchia are live in New York to break down the two-tier justice system, the central bankers' bank admitting money runs on bailouts, and the rest of the week in bitcoin, AI and freedom tech.

On today's show:

⚖️ Bank of America's $1.2B fine vs. Samourai and Roman Storm: FinCEN told SDNY Samourai wasn't a money transmitter. They charged them anyway.

🏦 The OCC's debanking report: banks cut off bitcoin businesses and used SAR secrecy to explain nothing

📜 The BIS says money needs "backstops that socialise the inherent fragility." Translation: bailouts. They also admit bitcoin removes trust in an issuer.

🔓 Ledger drain update: a confirmed hardware implant, $100M+ taken from 300+ wallets, and how to buy and verify a hardware wallet

🤖 If copying is free, what's left to own? AI clones of Word, Xbox embracing decompiles and a dead QuickBooks license

⚡️ DOE puts PJM's backup generators on standby in October, and why miners are the best load on the grid

📉 Measured in gold, the average Brit is poorer than in 1975

Drop your questions in the chat. We'll get to as many as we can.

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Bank of America & Samourai: https://www.tftc.io/bank-of-america-fine-samourai-two-tier-justice

The OCC debanking report: https://www.tftc.io/occ-debanking-report-megabanks-politics-digital-assets

The BIS paper: https://www.tftc.io/bis-money-architecture-of-trust-bitcoin

Ledger implant: https://www.tftc.io/ledger-cryptobilis-hardware-wallet-implant-authorized-reseller

AI & intellectual property: https://www.tftc.io/intellectual-property-ai-copying-gunpowder-colt-bitcoin

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Marty Bent and Thomas Pacchia go live to break down the week's biggest stories in bitcoin, tech and freedom.

Tonight:

🔓 The Ledger reseller attack: an estimated $86M+ reportedly drained from wallets bought through CryptoBilis in Southeast Asia. What we know, what we don't, and how to verify your own setup.

🧠 Justin Drake says head to the "bunker": could AI find a way to break ECDSA before quantum computers do? We dig into the claim and what it means for bitcoin holders.

🎮 AI-modded Halo and how AI is changing gaming.

https://x.com/MartyBent/status/2108380995258855451?s=20

https://x.com/Ledger_Support/status/2108551100613714002

https://x.com/notgrubles/status/2108549968210354591?s=20

https://x.com/MagicalTux/status/2108095743525625998?s=20

https://x.com/LindellYehuda/status/2107999859219587309?s=20

https://www.tftc.io/ecdsa-ai-bunker-mode-bitcoin-address-reuse

https://x.com/ProjectLoupe/status/2108241511607591223?s=20

https://x.com/TFTC21/status/2108586520924012571?s=20

https://x.com/DarkHorseDRK/status/2107446689762267570?s=20

https://x.com/Yodertoter40/status/2107828091691122790?s=20

https://x.com/PubKey/status/2107240022437249075?s=20

https://x.com/CoinDesk/status/2108600970066186301?s=20

https://x.com/BitcoinatBlock/status/2108284480243044407?s=20

https://x.com/TFTC21/status/2108485767739621660?s=20

0:00 - Dashboard

2:56 - Ledger Reseller Supply Chain Attack

10:10 - AI Quantum FUD and ECDSA

20:33 - Project Loupe Hardens Bitcoin Core

24:05 - AI Hacks South Korean Banks

31:57 - Dark Horse Grid Expansion Deal

43:26 - Pub Key Events and BitLicense

49:37 - New York Fines the Amish

52:39 - Russian Plague Conspiracy

57:32 - US Government Bitcoin Movements

1:00:43 - Block's Bitcoin Ad Campaign

1:04:15 - AI Modded Halo Servers

1:10:24 - S&P 500 Concentration

1:15:21 - Pope Leo and Conscious AI

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https://insider.btcpp.dev/p/when-randombytes-runs-but-doesnt

https://x.com/Rob1Ham/status/2083936334511538368

Farside Correction

Strike Launches Beneficiary Planning for Bitcoin Inheritance https://x.com/strike/status/2082560745498157548

CLARITY Act Protects Self-Custody Bitcoin from Abandoned Property Laws https://x.com/intangiblecoins/status/2081055716282953999

Vinteum Announces New Bitcoin Fellowship Cycle and Fellows https://x.com/vinteum_org/status/2080376273893728602

Jensen Huang's First X Post: NVIDIA Supports Open AI Models https://x.com/jensenhuang/status/2080643682408321103

Nigeria | Tinubu Establishes Virtual Asset Council

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu signed an executive order establishing a coordinated framework for the regulation of digital assets. The new “Virtual Asset Council” will be chaired by the Central Bank of Nigeria, with the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria Revenue Service, and other financial and national security officials also involved. The Nigerian SEC will oversee virtual assets classified as securities, while the central bank will register payment, custody, settlement, and other non-security assets. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Sparrow Wallet 2.5.3: ERA Hardware Wallet Support, XDG Directories, and PSBT Verification https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/2.5.3

Vexl v1.45.1: Performance Improvements and VCF Contact Backup https://github.com/vexl-it/vexl/releases/tag/v1.45.1_883

Amethyst v1.13.0: Napplet/nSite Browser Host, Cashu CLI Support, NIP-22 Comments, and Tor Onion-Location https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/tag/v1.13.0

Blitz Wallet Android v0.7.14: Faster Payments, Transaction Filtering by Description, and Simplified UI https://github.com/BlitzWallet/BlitzWallet/releases/tag/Android-v0.7.14

India Forces GitHub to Remove Bitchat App https://x.com/callebtc/status/2080576044168339662

Bitchat Enables Offline Self-Transfer to Other Android Phones https://x.com/callebtc/status/2082106744788955310

Bitchat Coming to Smartwatches as Decentralized Mesh Walkie-Talkie https://x.com/callebtc/status/2082427446154997910

Bitle: Open-Source ESP32 Mesh Relay for Off-Grid Bitchat https://x.com/Alacritic_Super/status/2082055423109247402

Russia Charges Telegram Founder Pavel Durov with Facilitating Terrorism https://www.reuters.com/world/russias-fsb-charges-telegram-founder-durov-with-facilitating-terrorism-ifax-says-2026-07-29/

Colorado's New Restrictive Process for Buying Semi-Auto Firearms https://x.com/avaflanell_/status/2080706895787249842

3:33 - Blaze it

8:33 - Dashboard

9:48 - Corrections

14:03 - Strike inheritance

15:38 - CLARITY protects from Noah Doe

25:18 - Vinteum

28:13 - Jensen tweets

35:13 - Boosts

36:28 - HRF Story of the Week

38:43 - Software updates

55:43 - Durov flips off Moscow

57:48 - Colorado has fallen

1:01:33 - Geo time

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No Agenda Show Announces Passing of Beloved Host John C. Dvorak at Age 74 https://x.com/na_announce/status/2079952538040672302

Tether’s Three-Way Crypto Deal Falls Apart as Jack Mallers Steps Down from Twenty One Capital https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-21/tether-s-three-way-crypto-deal-falls-apart-mallers-steps-down

BitMEX Announces Shutdown of Exchange Operations Effective September 23, 2026 https://x.com/bitmex/status/2080201602456301580

Coinkite Opens Reservations for arca Personal Data Haven Hardware https://blog.coinkite.com/arca-reservations-are-open/

Strive Announces Bitcoin Stewardship Commitment Supporting Brink & Open-Source Development https://x.com/colemacro/status/2079907362979410395

Mike Schmidt Volunteers to Coordinate Bitcoin Security Consortium Backed by Strategy, BlackRock, Fidelity & Others https://x.com/bitschmidty/status/2080263159152091455

Galaxy Pledges Up to $5M in Grants for Bitcoin Post-Quantum Cryptography Development https://x.com/intangiblecoins/status/2079541359996719512

Startup Founders Urge Trump Not to Block Chinese Open-Weight AI Models https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open-weight-ai-01008992

India | Central Bank Pushes Digital Asset Prohibition

India’s central bank is again pursuing a digital asset policy “leaning toward prohibition,” according to new government documents examined by Reuters. The Reserve Bank of India wants banks and regulated financial institutions barred from holding, trading, or offering exposure to digital assets and stablecoins. Officials also warn that offshore exchanges and peer-to-peer platforms are difficult to track. The documents estimate that India has nearly 39 million digital asset investors holding roughly $2.1 billion in digital assets. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Lightning Labs Launches Wavelength: Self-Custodial Bitcoin Payments Toolkit for Apps and AI Agents https://lightning.engineering/posts/2026-07-21-wavelength-launch/

Noah Wallet Update Integrates Bark 0.4.0 with Live Backups, Native UI & Easier Ark Features https://x.com/nitesh_btc/status/2080026943035187537

Bark Pay Launches: Self-Hosted Bitcoin Payments Solution Ready in Under 5 Minutes https://x.com/2ndpsy/status/2079932489921941716

BTCPay Server v2.4.1: BIP-329 Label Import, Editable Invoice Comments, and RTL Language Support https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/releases/tag/v2.4.1

Tails 7.10: New GNOME Shutdown Procedure and Celluloid Video Player https://tails.net/news/version_7.10/

Wisp v1.2.0: Multi-Account Switcher, Transaction History Sheets, and Improved Zaps https://github.com/barrydeen/wisp/releases/tag/v1.2.0

Hermes Agent v2026.7.20 “Quicksilver”: Major Speedups, Smart Approvals, and Password Manager Integration https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.7.20

JoinMarket-NG 0.34.2: Fidelity Bond Fixes and Tumbler Improvements https://github.com/joinmarket-ng/joinmarket-ng/releases/tag/0.34.2

Wasabi Wallet v2.8.1: Taproot Receive by Default, New Loading Screen, and AppImage Support https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/releases/tag/v2.8.1

Dana v0.8.1: Faster Startup, Sat/BTC Display Toggle, and Stability Fixes https://github.com/cygnet3/dana/releases/tag/v0.8.1

Block Buzz: Open-Source Hive Mind Communication Platform https://github.com/block/buzz

US Prosecutes Cop City Protester for Using GrapheneOS to Wipe Phone https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone

Court Rules CBP Can Manually Search Phones at Border With No Suspicion Required https://www.techtimes.com/articles/321338/20260723/cbp-can-rifle-through-your-phone-hand-border-no-suspicion-required.htm

Trump Targets Brazil’s Pix Payments System While Dollar Stablecoins Dominate Local Crypto Volume https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/18/trump-targets-brazil-s-payments-system-while-dollar-stablecoins-quietly-dominate-country-s-payments

France Orders ISPs to Block Access to Polymarket https://www.reuters.com/technology/french-internet-service-providers-told-block-access-polymarket-2026-07-17/

3:33 - Opening riff

5:53 - Dashboard

14:03 RIP John C. Dvorak

16:43 - Tether deal fails

23:38 - BitMEX shutdown

30:13 - ARCA

32:33 - Stewardship & Security Consortium

44:53 - Galaxy inb4 quantum

46:48 - Trump and Chinese AI

1:12:48 - HRF Story of the Week

1:14:33 - Boosts

1:19:03 - Software updates

1:39:43 - Graphene user prosecution

1:42:18 - Border patrol owns your phone

1:43:33 - Brazil payments

1:45:18 - France blocks Polymarket

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Court Sets Hearing for Bitcoin Policy Institute Intervention in Noah Doe Abandoned Coins Case https://x.com/intangiblecoins/status/2077864781894050294

Bitcoin Policy Institute Q2 2026 Quarterly Report: AI Influence Ops, CLARITY Protections, and Satoshi Scholars https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/q2-2026-quarterly-report

Bitcoin Battlefield: Live 3D Visualization Turning BTC Order Flow into a War https://bitcoin-battlefield.pages.dev/

AnchorWatch Launches Multi-Institution Custody with CoinCorner, BitGo, and Lloyd’s Insurance https://x.com/rob1ham/status/2077005052510662958

ZEUS Lightning Economics Report: The Bridge Between Bitcoin’s Two Identities https://zeusln.com/lightning-economics

Left Debanks Right, Right Debanks Left https://x.com/ODELLXYZ/status/2077916269991383426

Burma | More Than 100 Bank Accounts Frozen

The military junta in Burma froze the bank accounts of more than 100 companies, including firms involved in car imports, fuel, agriculture, gemstones, and import-export companies. Business owners and individuals were also summoned for questioning to Nay Pyi Taw, the capital, where the military junta is headquartered. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Cove Wallet v1.3.0: Passkey Cloud Backup, Progressive Scanner, and Onboarding Improvements https://github.com/bitcoinppl/cove/releases/tag/v1.3.0

JoinMarket-NG 0.34.0: Fee Quantization Defaults, Automatic CoinJoin History Import, and Security Hardening https://github.com/joinmarket-ng/joinmarket-ng/releases/tag/0.34.0

OpenClaw v2026.7.1: Major Control UI Overhaul, Onboarding, and Expanded Model Support https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.7.1

Nunchuk Android 2.7.1: Self-Custodial USDT on Liquid and Trezor Bluetooth Support https://github.com/nunchuk-io/nunchuk-android/releases/tag/android.2.7.1

Ashigaru 1.1.1 https://github.com/linkinparkrulz/ashigaru-desktop/releases/tag/v1.1.1

Truth Social to Sell Faster Access to Trump’s Market-Moving Posts via Truth API https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/16/truth-social-will-sell-investors-faster-access-trumps-market-moving-posts/

White House Teleprompter Operator Made Over $100K Betting on Trump’s Speeches https://abcnews.com/US/white-house-teleprompter-operator-made-100k-betting-trumps/story?id=134764573

29 Countries Sign Agreement to Establish World AI Cooperation Organization https://www.reuters.com/world/china/twenty-nine-countries-sign-agreement-establish-global-ai-cooperation-body-2026-07-16/

Federal Reserve Announces Leadership of Five Task Forces to Advance Monetary Policy https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20260709a.htm

AI 2040: Plan A – Delay Superintelligence Until 2040 with Full Research Transparency https://ai-2040.com/

DoorDash Opens CLI for AI Agents to Order Food Directly https://x.com/andyfang/status/2077516962515599799

.ME Registry Temporarily Suspends telegram.org Domain Over Sanctions, Then Restores It https://x.com/domainme/status/2077077395777994942

3:33 - The show must go on

11:03 - Dashboard and air filters

16:08 - Noah Doe

20:43 - BPI quarterly report

37:03 - Bitcoin battlefield

38:43 - AnchorWatch

42:13 - LN economics

56:28 - HRF Story of the Week

1:01:43 - Software updates

1:08:23 - Trump insider trading

1:13:33 - Fed task forces

1:14:53 - AI 2040

1:15:53 - DoorDash CLI

1:18:08 - Telegram .ME suspension

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Bull Bitcoin Files Legal Challenge Against EU DAC8 Crypto Reporting Rules https://x.com/BULLBITCOIN_/status/2074770378350617052

Strike Launches Volatility-Proof Bitcoin-Backed Loans with No Price Liquidations https://x.com/Strike/status/2074546850309263365

Polymarket Adds Instant Bitcoin Lightning Deposits Powered by Spark https://x.com/spark/status/2074539080197775421

Radar.Chat Launches: Private Messaging with Self-Custodial Bitcoin Lightning on Signal https://x.com/RadarChat/status/2074523998596055061

Sen. Wyden Urges Preserving Blockchain Developer Protections in Crypto Bill https://www.theblock.co/post/407648/wyden-urges-senate-leaders-preserve-contested-blockchain-developer-protections-in-broader-crypto-bill

Mempool Joins Stratum V2 Working Group for Decentralized Template Construction https://x.com/OrangeSurfBTC/status/2074928271481819614

Spiral: Block’s Open-Source Bitcoin and AI Initiative https://spiral.xyz/about/

Bangladesh | Central Bank Mandates State QR Payment System

Starting July 1, every merchant QR code in Bangladesh will be replaced by a government-backed standard. This comes after Bangladesh Bank announced that Bangla QR, its QR code system, will become mandatory. Banks and payments providers are required to update their existing merchant QR codes to Bangla QR by June 30 or face financial penalties. Officials claim the system will help create more digital transaction records, shrink the informal economy, improve tax collection, and strengthen anti-money laundering efforts. It also comes as part of the central bank’s efforts to reduce reliance on more private payment methods, such as cash. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Bitcoin Core 31.1 Released: Fixes PrivateBroadcast IP Leak and Chainstate Issues https://bitcoincore.org/en/releases/31.1/

SeedSigner v0.8.7 “Summer of SeedSigner”: 22 Languages and BBQr Support https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner/releases/tag/0.8.7

Bitcoin Safe 2.0.0: Guided Wallet Setup, Private Sync, and Device-Focused Signing https://bitcoin-safe.org/en/news/bitcoin-safe-2-0-0/

Giga Energy Introduces GigaBase: AI Data Centers Ready in 9 Months https://x.com/GigaEnergy_/status/2074478543719800951

3:33 - Opening riff

5:23 - Dashboard

9:08 - Bull Bitcoin DAC8

23:43 - Strike

27:58 - Polymarket Spark

29:58 - Radar Chat

35:28 - Sen. Wyden dev protections

37:03 - Mempool StratumV2 & Ocean announcement

39:28 - Spiral

42:03 - HRF Story of the Week

43:23 - Zaps/Boosts

50:53 - Software updates

54:23 - Giga energy

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Bitcoin Crowdfunding for Venezuela Earthquake Relief Supplies https://x.com/pakovm/status/2070254848814288935

Strike Now Authorized Under MiCA Across All 27 EU Countries https://x.com/jackmallers/status/2072353197650518196

Bark Wallet Solves Offchain State Backups with Encrypted Snapshots https://x.com/notgrubles/status/2072386304642286029

Blink Wallet Introduces Non-Custodial Accounts https://blink.sv/blog/non-custodial-accounts-in-blink-wallet

Calvin Kim Receives OpenSats Long-Term Support Grant https://opensats.org/blog/calvin-kim-receives-lts-grant

OpenSats Developer Spotlight: Egge (Coco) https://opensats.org/blog/developer-spotlight-egge-coco

OpenSats Developer Spotlight: Rajarshi Maitra https://opensats.org/blog/developer-spotlight-rajarshi-maitra

OpenSats Grant Map https://opensats.org/map

BitGo CEO Announces ~15% Workforce Reduction for Strategic Focus https://x.com/mikebelshe/status/2070240967479996463

Strategy Announces Digital Credit Capital Framework https://www.strategy.com/press/strategy-announces-digital-credit-capital-framework_06-29-2026

Cambodia Launches Smart Policing Initiative in Phnom Penh

Cambodia’s Ministry of Interior formally launched a China-backed “Smart Police” initiative in the capital city of Phnom Penh. The new policing system will connect 487 cameras equipped with AI-powered identity and vehicle tracking and send all video feeds into a new centralized command center. To support the rollout, Chinese-backed regional security partners are providing financial and technical support for the project and have pledged to expand the camera grid in the future. Cambodian officials say the project will protect residents and tourists. But in a country where dissent is overtly and systematically punished, these new AI-powered systems can easily double as a surveillance machine capable of identifying anyone who criticizes the ruling party. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Ashigaru Terminal v1.0.0 Released: Whirlpool Coinjoin Client Built from Sparrow https://ashigaru.rs/news/release-terminal-v1-0-0/

COLDCARD 5.5.1 and 1.4.1Q Firmware: BIP-322 Proof of Reserves, WIF Store, and Secure Notes Upgrades https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-5.5.1-1.4.1q-release/

Wasabi Wallet v2.8.0 Release https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/releases/tag/v2.8.0

Noah v0.1.3 Release https://github.com/smolcars/noah/releases/tag/v0.1.3

New Checkout Method for in Person BTCPay Stores https://x.com/MrKukks/status/2072677988026421484

Bitcoin Core secp256k1 Pull Request #1884 https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/pull/1884

Tails 7.9.1 Release https://tails.net/news/version_7.9.1/

Open Standard Introduces Open USD https://joinopenstandard.com/blog/introducing-open-usd

The Secret History of Polymarket – Part 1: DARPA, Thiel, and Prediction Market Origins https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/06/investigative-series/the-secret-history-of-polymarket-part-1/

Claude Code Accused of Hiding China Proxy Fingerprints Inside System Prompts https://www.internationalcyberdigest.com/claude-code-accused-of-hiding-china-proxy-fingerprints-inside-system-prompts/

Foreign Influence Campaign Against American AI – Part II: Singham Ground Game https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/foreign-influence-campaign-against-american-ai-part-ii-singham-ground-game

AI Drones Rapidly Restoring Degraded Land in Brazil (MORFO) https://x.com/alex_verem/status/2072001777487196662

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Coinkite Warns of Physical Letter Firmware-Update Scam https://blog.coinkite.com/paper-spam/

Camp Nakamoto https://x.com/campnakamoto/status/2069181607341170760

First StratumV2 Block Mined https://x.com/pavlenex/status/2070132430875267538

Law Enforcement and Catholic Groups Warn CLARITY Act Could Create Crypto Crime Loopholes https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/law-enforcement-catholic-group-clarity-act

India | Frozen Account Leaves Savings Out of Reach

In India, a man named Shiva spent years building a savings fund for his son’s wedding. The money came from small jobs and side work, carefully set aside in a separate bank account opened specifically for that purpose. But when the balance exceeded a certain threshold, the financial system automatically froze the account. Overnight, Shiva had been cut off from his own money. When the issue was escalated to the branch manager of his bank, they explained that the freeze was automatically imposed from the central bank’s IT system, and there was nothing they could do. To recover access, he was prompted to complete forms written in English, a language he could not easily navigate. Ultimately, the account was restored only after outside intervention from a friend who helped push the case through a process Shiva could not resolve on his own. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Tor Project to Sunset Tor 0.4.8; Upgrade to 0.4.9 by September https://blog.torproject.org/sunsetting-tor-048/

JoinMarket-NG 0.33.0 Adds Config Center, Wallet History API, and Address-Reuse Defense https://github.com/joinmarket-ng/joinmarket-ng/releases/tag/0.33.0

Utreexo v0.18.0 Improves Forest Allocation, Rehashing, and Windows Builds https://github.com/utreexo/utreexo/releases/tag/v0.18.0

ASIC-RS v0.7.0 Adds Power Limits, Miner State Messages, and Temperature Model https://github.com/256foundation/asic-rs/releases/tag/v0.7.0

The Six Billion Dollar Man Bitcoin Premiere Bypasses Media Gatekeepers https://www.thesixbilliondollarman.com

Imagine If Nashville Project Homepage https://www.imagineifnashville.com

Freedom Tech DC 2026 https://www.btcpolicy.org/summit

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Private Broadcast May Reveal Sender IP Address in Bitcoin Core 31.0 https://bitcoincore.org/en/2026/06/06/privatebroadcast-ip-leak/

Bitcoin Toggle Now Live on Square Register https://x.com/cashapp/status/2067374663160983885

Illinois Set to Begin Taxing Bitcoin https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/illinois-set-begin-taxing-bitcoin-172237413.html

Fed Ends Forward Guidance Era – Tea Leaves Back on the Menu https://x.com/fejau_inc/status/2067352890507972709

Robinhood to Cut 10% of Full-Time Workforce https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/robinhood-cut-10-its-full-time-workforce-2026-06-16/

China Developing AI-Powered Tools to Predict Dissent

Leaked documents revealed that Chinese technology company, Geedge Networks, is developing AI-powered tools aimed at predicting who might one day criticize the CCP. Working with MESA Lab, a regime-backed research lab, Geedge is reportedly building behavioral profiles of individuals based on their social media, location data, telecommunications, and online activity. AI models could then sift through profiles and spotlight those who might be a political risk. There is no evidence the technology is finalized or deployed, but if deployed, China’s surveillance system could become a tool to chill dissent before it ever begins. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Alby Hub v1.23.0 Release https://github.com/getAlby/hub/releases/tag/v1.23.0

Cove 1.3.0 Beta: Passkey Cloud Backup + Multi-Account Support https://x.com/covewallet/status/2066994714574778786

OpenAuspex Project Homepage https://www.openauspex.dev/

Bark Wallet Now Available on Umbrel https://blog.second.tech/bark-wallet-now-on-umbrel/

Enclavia: Six Hard Problems, One Solution https://enclavia.io/blog/six-hard-problems-one-solution/

Anthropic Expands Access to Fable and Mythos https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

Trump Administration Backs Musk’s xAI in NAACP Data Center Lawsuit https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-backs-musks-xai-naacp-data-center-lawsuit-2026-06-16/

SpaceX to Buy Anysphere for $60 Billion https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/spacex-buy-anysphere-60-billion-2026-06-16/

Secret Elite Group Member List Leaked https://archive.ph/iM5ei

Midjourney Medical Blogpost https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost

AI Subscription Subsidy Analysis https://x.com/semianalysis_/status/2064815044085318040

Elon Shares Anti-Drone Rifle Footage https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2066356709635866898

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24:33 - Fed tea leaves

30:53 - Robinhood cuts employees

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36:53 - Shoutouts

39:43 - Software updates

52:08 - Fable and Mythos

1:03:13 - Trump backs Musk

1:08:38 - SpaceX buys Cursor

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Keonne Rodriguez (Samourai dev) updates on prison transfer & furlough request https://x.com/keonne/status/2063959631383179277

Bark Ark Protocol Launches on Bitcoin Mainnet https://blog.second.tech/bark-now-on-bitcoin-mainnet/

Second Introduces Noah and Arké Bitcoin Ark Wallets https://blog.second.tech/introducing-noah-and-arke/

Signal: UK Surveillance Is Not Safety https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf

Mullvad explains UK spyware proposal: mandatory real-time scanning & blocking on all devices https://x.com/mullvadnet/status/2064342870937509988

SimpleX Network Consortium Governance and Foundation Overview https://simplexnetwork.org/consortium.html

Pump.fun launches GO: bounty platform to pay anyone for any task https://x.com/pumpfun/status/2062557004829233504

Man tattoos forehead for $2,400 Pump.fun bounty (spells it wrong) https://x.com/discordiaclips/status/2063406281130398012

Strategy Announces Approval of STRC Semi-Monthly Dividends https://www.strategy.com/press/strategy-announces-approval-of-strc-semi-monthly-dividends_06-08-2026

Polymarket Cracks Down on VPN Users Amid Legal Pressure https://gizmodo.com/polymarket-cracks-down-on-vpn-users-as-legal-pressure-intensifies-in-dozens-of-countries-2000765379

Karpathy on Claude Fable 5: strong benchmarks but overly trigger-happy safeguards https://x.com/karpathy/status/2064409694761054332

Malware devs add WMD keywords to spyware to evade LLM scanners https://x.com/jsrailton/status/2064661778978533571

Anthropic Dario Pushes for Regulatory Moat https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential

HRF Freedom Tech in Oslo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcG_CJkT6A

Dark Wisp Android v1.0.0 Adds Private Interactions, Tor Routing, and NIP-A3 Payments https://github.com/barrydeen/dark-wisp-android/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Kickstr World Cup Game https://kickstr.einundzwanzig.dev/games/7ea5d40f-be37-4895-94cd-2adaf53f45ad

Bitaxe ESP-Miner v2.14.0 Release https://github.com/bitaxeorg/ESP-Miner/releases/tag/v2.14.0

Ulendo: borderless calling via Nostr + Bitcoin without local SIM cards https://x.com/codamw/status/2063340269785784526

Microsoft Patches Record 206 Security Flaws https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/microsoft-patches-record-206-flaws.html

Milei proposes AI framework with "non-human corporations" & zero regulation https://x.com/trajektoriepl/status/2062594306670535130

Cuba Poised for Largest U.S. Fuel Shipment Since Cold War Embargo https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/cuba-poised-for-biggest-us-fuel-shipment-since-cold-war-embargo

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19:13 - Keonne update

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41:03 - Noah & Arké

47:01 - Simple Network Consortium

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1:07:33 - Polymarket VPN crackdown

1:11:23 - Fable

1:24:43 - WMD LLM keyword bypass

1:30:38 - Anthropic is too good

1:33:08 - HRF Oslo

1:33:58 - HRF Story of the Week

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1:49:03 - Milei AI

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Zcash Orchard vulnerability remediated after coordinated network upgrade https://zodl.com/orchard-vulnerability-successfully-remediated/

Trezor says TROPIC01 chip flaw does not put Safe 7 funds at risk https://trezor.io/blog/news/Trezor-response-TROPIC01-chip-disclosure-no-impact-to-your-funds

Blockchain Association publishes law-enforcement letter to Senate on CLARITY Act https://theblockchainassociation.org/posts/blockchain-association-letter-from-law-enforcement-to-senate-leadership

Treasury Goes After Iran Crypto https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0519

NPR: George Santos Kalshi insider trading investigation https://www.npr.org/2026/06/02/nx-s1-5843371/george-santos-kalshi-insider-trading-investigation

Polymarket Rules Incorrectly in Saylor Market https://x.com/willo2_Poly/status/2061640812132516321

HRF Oslo Freedom Forum https://www.youtube.com/user/OsloFreedomForum

Cashu tests first on-chain TEE mint for trust-minimized ecash https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs9azf5pgt8k5tjq325xstfp5ue9z9h7nne0fnsv0nm7qlzauue8kg2y53mf

Core Lightning v26.06 release https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v26.06

Alby Hub v1.22.2 release https://github.com/getAlby/hub/releases/tag/v1.22.2

Sparrow Wallet 2.5.2 release https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/2.5.2

nostr-vpn v4.0.48 release https://github.com/mmalmi/nostr-vpn/releases/tag/v4.0.48

Tails 7.8.1 released https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_8_1/

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33:23 - Trezor chip vulnerability

38:03 - Blockchain Association Clarity Act

47:33 - Iran crypto

54:16 - George Santos Kalshi

57:58 - Polymarket error

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Sentiment Analysis https://x.com/sullymichaelvan/status/2059646236966137982

Fidelity Glitch https://x.com/adi_baradwaj/status/2059422632215548143

NY legal complaint seeks title to 39,069 allegedly abandoned bitcoin wallets https://static1.squarespace.com/static/694884477ae7ad3f7b78981b/t/6a038dcea3e5b83386bf21a4/1778617806647/2026-05-01+%5B21%5D-%5B22%5D+Summons+%26+Amended+Complaint.pdf

Is it Shkreli? https://x.com/MartinShkreli/status/2059711308921028692

Former CIA officer accused of stealing $40M in gold bars and foreign currency https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/28/politics/former-cia-officer-public-money-theft

Texas app store age-verification law allowed to take effect for now https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05/28/texas-apple-google-app-store-age-verification/

South Carolina social media law criticized as statewide age surveillance https://reclaimthenet.org/south-carolina-social-media-surveillance-law

Walz signs Minnesota bill adding social media protections for children https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/walz-signs-bill-enacting-social-media-guardrails-for-minnesota-children/

Developer Spotlight: Kurt Unger https://opensats.org/blog/developer-spotlight-kurt-unger

CFTC Approves Kalshi Perpetual BTC Future https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9240-26

North Korea | Dictatorship Implements Rice Price Controls

North Korea’s authoritarian regime is attempting to cap rice prices after a sharp food price surge, but the policy is making the shortage worse. According to Daily NK, the regime ordered local officials to stop street vendors from selling rice above a state-imposed ceiling. This action was in response to rice prices rising above 30,000 North Korean won ($33.33) per kilogram. Officials and undercover agents are now inspecting markets, checking sellers’ account books, and confiscating rice from those accused of charging too much. Traders are responding by pulling rice from public stalls and selling it privately from homes or other hidden locations. For North Koreans, the state’s actions make rice harder to find and more expensive. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Matching Hashes: Reproducing the Guix-built Bitcoin Core release binary with Nix https://b10c.me/projects/027-bitcoind-gunix-match/

ngit-cli v2.5.0 adds PR defaults, GRASP fallback handling, and checkout fixes https://github.com/DanConwayDev/ngit-cli/releases/tag/v2.5.0

Europa VPN Market https://europa.westernbtc.com/

Google employee charged with insider trading https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/google-employee-charged-insider-trading

Data broker location data used to target and kill U.S. troops https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/28/enemies-are-exploiting-unregulated-data-broker-location-data-to-target-and-kill-u-s-troops/

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16:48 - Angry plebs

37:48 - Fidelity glitch

42:48 - Abandoned wallets

48:53 - Texas age verification

56:33 - Drone warfare

1:04:48 - OpenSats dev spotlight

1:06:18 - CFTC Kalshi

1:10:48 - HRF Story of the Week

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1:26:16 - Google insider trading

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GitHub Discloses Security Breach via Poisoned VS Code Extensionhttps://x.com/github/status/2056949168208552080

Iran Launches Bitcoin-Powered Maritime Insurance Platform "Hormuz Safe"https://x.com/bitcoinnewscom/status/2056099986199232732

SpaceX Holds Nearly 19,000 BTC Valued at $1.29 Billionhttps://x.com/macroscope17/status/2057205538086117590

Trump Executed Over 3,700 Stock Trades in First Quarterhttps://x.com/infraa_/status/2055988212611645663

Trump Executive Order Expands Bank Secrecy Act Requirementshttps://www.therage.co/trump-executive-order-expands-bank-secrecy-act/

The U.S. Can’t Lose the Bitcoin Race to China https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2026/05/19/the-u-s-can-t-lose-the-bitcoin-race-to-china

Hodl Hodl Launches Lightning Trading on Mainnethttps://x.com/hodlhodl/status/2057111820268130576

Thailand | Cash Handout Expands State Digital Payments

Thailand’s regime approved the “Thai Help Thai Plus” scheme, a 175 billion baht relief program covering more than 43 million people. State welfare cardholders will receive 1,000 baht per month automatically, while 30 million others can register through the Pao Tang app for a 60/40 co-payment benefit worth up to 4,000 baht over four months. The funds can only be used at participating merchants between 6 am and 11 pm through the state-linked wallet app, and cash withdrawals are prohibited. The program may help households facing surging fuel and living costs, but it also deepens reliance on government-controlled digital payment infrastructure. When economic relief is tied to identification, apps, spending rules, and approved merchants, support can quickly become another layer of state control. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Sparrow Wallet 2.5.0 Released – Adds Silent Payments Supporthttps://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/2.5.0

Zeus LN v13.0.2 Released with RGS Improvements and Bug Fixeshttps://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v13.0.2

NostrVPN v4.0.37https://nostrvpn.org

Seed Tool v2.3.0https://primal.net/bitcoinqna/6nKZJtCgwY5ATgh9idnlS

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9:43 - TEMS

19:33 - Dashboard

21:18 - Github disclosure

25:53 - Hormuz Safe

44:38 - Trump 60 trades a day

52:13 - US/China bitcoin race

53:22 - Trump expands BSA

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Android VPN Vulnerability

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/any-app-on-recent-android-versions-can-leak-certain-traffic

Tando Enables Lightning Addresses for All Kenyan M-Pesa Phone Numbers https://x.com/tando_me/status/2054209322217808292

Top CEOs Including Musk, Cook, and Fink Join Trump on China Trip https://x.com/kobeissiletter/status/2054551038632292610

Iran's Internet Blackout Enters 75th Day https://x.com/netblocks/status/2054469192271720950

Bitcoin User Recovers 5+ BTC from 11-Year-Old Wallet Using Claude AI https://x.com/cprkrn/status/2054586810475364536

Roman Sterlingov on Prison Abuse and the Erosion of Privacy

https://www.therage.co/the-people-and-the-machine/

Strive Announces Daily Dividends for $SATA Shareholders https://x.com/Strive/status/2054894518990700568

HRF’s AI Fund Supports 10 Innovative Projects for Human Rights

https://hrf.org/latest/hrfs-ai-fund-supports-10-innovative-projects/

Project Loupe: AI-Powered Vulnerability Scanner for Open-Source Bitcoin Projects https://x.com/ProjectLoupe/status/2054252211756994678

Frigate 1.5.0 Release - Enhances Silent Payments and Electrum Server https://github.com/sparrowwallet/frigate/releases/tag/1.5.0

LDK Server: Production-Grade Lightning Node Daemon Released https://x.com/lightningdevkit/status/2054231998458175553

JoinMarket-ng 0.29.0 Released - Major Updates & Fixes for CoinJoin Privacy Tool

https://github.com/joinmarket-ng/joinmarket-ng/releases/tag/0.29.0

Nostr Station Beta

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Keonne's Prison Appeal for Legal Debt Donations https://x.com/keonne/status/2052066547561070671

Bitcoin Core Discloses CVE-2024-52911 Remote Crash Vulnerability https://bitcoincore.org/en/2026/05/05/disclose-cve-2024-52911/

Bisq Announces V1 Trade Protocol Exploit and Emergency Trading Halt https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsgm3fvgfc7525a9mcnkpx5z0938av8ke30fmj4shxem7dvq7a3zccs5dsf8

Brian Armstrong Announces Coinbase 14% Staff Reduction for AI Efficiency https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723

Strike Ships Bitcoin Lending Expansions and Remittance Features https://x.com/strike/status/2051404604647100902

Indonesia | Digital Payment System with China Established

China and Indonesia launched a cross‑border QR payment system connecting China’s major payment apps with Indonesia’s QRIS network, the country’s national digital payment standard, used by over 50 million people. At launch, the system supports Alipay and UnionPay (China’s dominant mobile payment platform and the national payment network, respectively), allowing travelers and residents from both countries to scan and pay across borders, with transactions settled directly in yuan and rupiah under a local currency settlement framework. FinancialFreedomReport.org

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Divine, Vine reboot, launches https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs0pfq8frlp2avsfn4l6krkt5ssfqapemu8sr0fmn07f4fjpmd3zlc28vmpq

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South African Bitcoiners Under Attack https://propertyrightsdefense.org

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Iran Internet Blackout Reaches 55th Day - NetBlockshttps://x.com/netblocks/status/2047217589156245931

Palantir Shares 'The Technological Republic' Manifestohttps://x.com/palantirtech/status/2045574398573453312

Palantir Partners with USDA for American Farmershttps://x.com/palantirtech/status/2046907163038073051

Signal Announces Apple iOS Patch for Notification Bughttps://x.com/signalapp/status/2047070518776356996

US Admiral: Bitcoin Has “Incredible Potential” for National Securityhttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsdur5mraa6e4y9ruw0yekq4r3d84danlyrq0l92lvgm63v3ylw72gh243yg

Tether Supports Freeze of More Than $344 Million in USD₮ in Coordination with OFAC and U.S. Law Enforcement https://tether.io/news/tether-supports-freeze-of-more-than-344-million-in-usdt-in-coordination-with-ofac-and-u-s-law-enforcement/

Scammers Offer Crypto 'Safe Passage' in Strait of Hormuz - Degenerate Newshttps://x.com/degeneratenews/status/2046559584307839410

Prediction: UBI Evolves to Social Credit UCI - @himgajriahttps://x.com/himgajria/status/2032255575539789829

Open Hardware for Open Money - OpenSats Bloghttps://opensats.org/blog/open-hardware-for-open-money

Russia | VPN and Digital Asset Crackdown Deepens Digital and Financial Control

The Russian regime is once again escalating control over both internet access and digital assets. Officials have ordered more than 20 major companies — including banks, retailers, and media outlets — to actively block users from accessing their platforms via virtual private network (VPN) services. To enforce the measures, officials handed companies a blacklist of prohibited VPNs along with instructions for detecting and blocking them. Firms that refuse to comply risk losing privileged regulatory status, including tax benefits and mandatory pre-installation on devices sold in Russia. Simultaneously, Russia’s central bank is pushing new rules requiring identity verification for digital asset traders using domestic platforms, which would make it harder for Russians to withdraw funds into self-custodial wallets without authoritarian state permission. Together, the measures tighten control over two of the last available avenues for digital and financial privacy in Russia. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Nunchuk Adds Coldcard HSM Support for Bitcoin Agentshttps://x.com/nunchuk_io/status/2046952168213840056

Mempool v3.3 Released with Advanced Bitcoin Featureshttps://x.com/mempool/status/2046578616453214646

Fedi Enables BTC Payments to Indian UPI QR Codeshttps://x.com/fedibtc/status/2043706877532307822

Wisp v1.0.0 Officially Launches on Google Play with Major Updateshttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsqqqquvylwaussq3hleveu7hk9tk6sgf4jhh3x63nsgtsj00qn79g262yyp

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Fold Launches Bitcoin Bonus Program for Employershttps://x.com/fold_app/status/2047335299588542957

Strike Expands Bitcoin Lending Access with Lower Minimumshttps://x.com/Strike/status/2046334859673530572

Bitcoiners: Pay Duty-Free with Bitcoin at Oslo Airporthttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsgjm9svsml0uht4yapyn7ul26m5pyuvdg9x3zfnktwhkrzklec37cuawntt

Amazon Exposed for Secret Price Manipulation with Walmart, Levi's & Morehttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqspxu86m3u52ndltew7t02cwt8y44hrwcwtadgu6l0fq07zj9ug27cctyu5c

Microsoft plans first-ever voluntary employee buyout for up to 7% of U.S. workforce https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/microsoft-plans-first-voluntary-retirement-program-for-us-employees.html

3:33 - Opening riff

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Strategy Funds $1B Bitcoin Buy with Preferred Shares https://x.com/business/status/2043703810611195923

Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transactions Using Hash Puzzles https://github.com/avihu28/Quantum-Safe-Bitcoin-Transactions/

Loud Shitcoiners Are Closeted Bitcoin Maximalists https://x.com/pledditor/status/2042814969599685003

Jeffrey Yan Builds Profitable Hyperliquid Exchange https://colossus.com/article/beyond-the-sky-jeffrey-yan-hyperliquid/

Iran | Regime Moves To Seize Assets as Internet Blackout Exceeds 1,000 Hours

In Iran, the regime has ordered the identification and seizure of assets of more than 100 citizens living abroad, including freezing their bank accounts. Those targeted reportedly include journalists, media workers, public figures, and other Iranians accused of supporting opposition groups from outside the country. The move comes as Iran’s regime-imposed internet blackout stretches beyond 43 days, leaving millions unable to access independent information and largely cut off from the outside world. FinancialFreedomReport.org

HAMSTR Adds Reticulum LoRa Mesh Networking for Offline Nostr & Zaps https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsp2g2v9m4qhl3d4cfcfav8waahz7lck5x5l6g9529tr4v9fra33hq5ggld5

Tether Launches Self-Custodial Tether Wallet https://tether.io/news/tether-launches-tether-wallet-the-peoples-wallet-extending-its-global-financial-infrastructure-directly-to-billions-of-users-left-behind-by-the-traditional-financial-system/

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TBPN Vanishes from Feeds After OpenAI Acquisition https://x.com/stevehou/status/2045049746121801899

Bitcoin Scholars Fund Launches Tax Credit for K-12 BTC Education https://x.com/BitcoinScholars/status/2044460767479828540

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US Secures Indonesia Defense Partnership for Malacca Strait https://x.com/warclandestine/status/2043829296117231780

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Iran Proposes Bitcoin Oil Toll https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/iran-wants-bitcoin-payments-oil-142809623.html + https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs2k4fh032uxuhnmh5r7s6ra3cx4tczkhhc9tt4yuqu3xfl2juxx7skudrk5

France Repatriates Gold Reserves https://x.com/clashreport/status/2041076906280309046

Bitcoin ETF Fastest to $100B https://x.com/mtanguma/status/2041865673110962555

Square Phases Bitcoin Payments https://x.com/milessuter/status/2040154587232182565

Salvadoran Bitcoin Students Join Mempool https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsqcfhdguz5x4hy6zhhur3f72nvjypw4an9ln7lcs0rek6cl5arxgc4rdqj5

Strike updates https://x.com/Strike/status/2041273272587686035

OpenSats 16th Nostr Grants https://opensats.org/blog/sixteenth-wave-of-nostr-grants

Russia | Banks to Use State Messenger for Transaction Verification

Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development is drafting legislation that would require banks to confirm customer financial operations through Max, a Kremlin-controlled messaging app. In practice, instead of confirming transactions within their banking app (or via SMS), users would receive a message in the Max app and must approve the action there to complete it. The proposal applies to undefined “significant” actions, granting officials broad discretion over which financial activities require approval. This would insert state-run app verification into everyday banking. And if Max goes down, significant financial activity may stop entirely. FinancialFreedomReport.org

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Mesh LLM Distributed Inference https://github.com/michaelneale/mesh-llm

Nunchuk CLI for AI Agents https://x.com/nunchuk_io/status/2041878908547821872

Iran Blackout Day 41 https://x.com/netblocks/status/2042140068509290961

Bitchat iOS banned in China, Bitchat android hits 3.2M installs https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs8k3n72knrtm3nvz5vqp4cm9dctxtuc627zz8kttxvqssnl7z60mqfj4rr7 + https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqspne9a0e40ulra9uhvht6mdgad40m63w3xr6h6tuh77rsthue0nlgg66x3y

Google AI Finance Global Launch https://x.com/thefox/status/2041910855479259400

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Iran Imposes Yuan & Crypto Tolls on Ships in Strait of Hormuzhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/strait-of-hormuz-ships-paying-iran-yuan-and-crypto-tolls-for-safe-passage

Oracle Cuts Thousands of Jobs Amid Rampant AI Spendinghttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/oracle-layoffs-ai-spending.html

SHRIMPS: New 2.5KB Multi-Device Post-Quantum Signatureshttps://x.com/n1ckler/status/2038695067754328095

Russia | Record Bank Withdrawals as Surveillance and Account Freezes Surge

Russian residents withdrew over 1.6 trillion rubles ($19.7 billion) from banks in January, mainly due to declining trust in the state-controlled financial system. This exodus follows a significant change in banking oversight, as the central bank doubled the number of suspicious activity indicators, the digital signals that automatically trigger account freezes. Allegedly aimed at preventing fraud, these new criteria temporarily blocked as many as three million bank accounts and cards in early January. To tighten its grip, the Interior Ministry proposed capping cash withdrawals at 50,000 rubles ($615) for flagged accounts, while a $10,000 lifetime limit on foreign currency withdrawals was recently extended through Sept. 9. All these regulations reinforce the digital limitations on Russian savers, making physical cash one of their few remaining protections against state overreach. FinancialFreedomReport.org

StartOS v0.4.0-beta Major Rewrite & UI Overhaul Releasedhttps://github.com/Start9Labs/start-os/releases

Frigate v1.4.0https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsrg3xsjwpt4d9g05rqy4vkzx5ysdffm40qtxntfr47y3annnfwpzg7geerr

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Cypher Box 0.0.8: Progressive Self-Custody Bitcoin Wallet on TestFlighthttps://x.com/cypher_box/status/2038301929395179759

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LiteLLM PyPI Supply Chain Attack, https://x.com/karpathy/status/2036487306585268612

Bitcoin Canary in .bashrc for Compromise Detection, https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2036531640676262187

Bitcoin De Minimis Exemption Briefing Success, https://x.com/BitcoinConner/status/2037232127457046999

Coinbase flips,

https://x.com/TFTC21/status/2037582035787935800?s=20

Kentucky Drops Hardware Wallet Backdoor Bill, https://x.com/BitcoinConner/status/2036941260146053555

Clarity Bill update https://x.com/BitcoinConner/status/2037581084322390041

Coinbase launches "bitcoin mortgages" https://x.com/coinbase/status/2037146481300279410

OpenSats Report on Nostr Relay Advancements, https://opensats.org/blog/advancements-in-nostr-relays

Uganda | Regime Freezes Bank Accounts of Major NGOs

The Museveni regime has frozen the bank accounts of several leading human rights organizations, escalating the financial repression of civil society. Uganda’s Financial Intelligence Authority, responsible for monitoring money laundering, froze both institutional and personal accounts to investigate funding received from abroad. Organizations impacted include Chapter Four Uganda, the African Institute for Investigative Journalism, and the Agora Centre for Research, which was co-founded by 2023 Oslo Freedom Forum speaker Agather Atuhaire. FinancialFreedomReport.org

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Strike Updates, https://x.com/Strike/status/2036149966666604756

Fold Bitcoin Credit Card Launch, https://x.com/fold_app/status/2037232752722956657

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COLDCARD Firmware 6.5 Adds MuSig2 Support, https://x.com/COLDCARDwallet/status/2036830284214399462

nsite: Decentralized Websites on Nostr & Blossom, https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs2ff4hlwglfh8smqd8f7ggq6rm70c457lqvh8krsxsj479p83leuqu666z9

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1:13:33 - Kentucky drops hardware backdoor

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Kentucky Amendment Threatens Bitcoin Self-Custody: Hardware Wallets Forced to Reset Seed Phraseshttps://x.com/bitcoinpolicy/status/2034702487995768878

Super Micro Co-Founder Arrested for Smuggling $2.5B NVIDIA GPUs to Chinahttps://x.com/ns123abc/status/2034788101491425570

Strike Line of Credit Expands to 21 States https://x.com/Strike/status/2034742450732908607

Primal 3.0 Live: New Wallet, Polls, GIFs - https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsftt6ws6s0dcgev6uz7mkxvl7gw5v3349gd6t2x0scwwyg6jj48mcatwnue

Asia | States Ration Energy as Fuel Prices Surge

As the Strait of Hormuz remains closed to shipping amid conflict between Iran, Israel, and the United States, governments across Asia are rushing to reduce energy use as fuel prices climb and supply issues strain economies reliant on Middle Eastern oil. Bangladesh has limited the supply of fuel and closed universities to save electricity. Pakistan shut schools and shifted services online, while the Philippines adopted a four-day workweek for some government offices. Vietnam and Thailand are promoting remote work, and South Korea has set a fuel price cap for the first time in nearly three decades. As we saw after the outbreak of COVID, authoritarian regimes often exploit macroeconomic crises to expand and cement their control. https://FinancialFreedomReport.org

Index: Paid API Directory for AI Agentshttps://402index.io/

Boltz Introduces Non-Custodial USDT Swaps from Lightning Sats to Stablecoinshttps://blog.boltz.exchange/p/introducing-usdt-swaps-from-sats

Nostr-VPN: Open-Source VPN Project Shared on Nostrhttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsgy97p3mk7q3nvqwy0l2snmdungssw220qrasr4yfhlrudsxjs3aqle4ltj

DoorDash Launches Dasher Tasks for General Paid Workhttps://x.com/andyfang/status/2034725410462998964French

Pokémon Go Creator’s Ties to In-Q-Tel, Keyhole Inc, and Google Earthhttps://x.com/JasonBassler1/status/2034289920165241295

Aircraft Carrier Position Leaked via Strava Fitness Apphttps://x.com/jsrailton/status/2034721758004064592402

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Coinbase Allegedly Lobbying Against Bitcoin De Minimis Tax Exemptionhttps://x.com/martybent/status/2031770369871253664

COLDCARD Mk5 Hardware Wallet Announcementhttps://x.com/coldcardwallet/status/2031356036356149746

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U.S. Treasury Acknowledges Legitimate Privacy Uses for Crypto Mixershttps://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/03/09/u-s-treasury-signals-shift-on-crypto-mixers-acknowledges-legitimate-privacy-uses

DOJ Plans Retrial of Roman Storm in Tornado Cash Casehttps://x.com/amandatums/status/2031176790484374012

White House Account Run by Former Army Psychological Warfare Specialisthttps://x.com/allblackgat/status/2030124827831402863

Turkey | Crackdown on Currency Exchange

Turkish officials have stepped up their enforcement of unregistered foreign currency exchanges in major cities and tourist areas. Since 2018, officials have suspended the operations of 859 unlicensed businesses. The crackdown comes as many people in Turkey increasingly seek other currencies to protect their savings from inflation and the long-term decline of the Turkish lira. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Bitcoin Core Merges Cluster Mempool for Improved Efficiencyhttps://x.com/ducatstable/status/2030010651427631188

Zaprite API Resource for Bitcoin Payments Integrationhttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsg0ttfrf7s7l3quh2j6u7kkmtaxpvrxay4qgkvs27lk3vaa468n6ssqsvh2

Manent v1.0.0: Encrypted Nostr-Based Note-Taking App Launchhttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs96300c4kaq5jwtrfffhd4utvr3t6tp2n662vpc882g9445hqgqhcmne7ry

Bitcoin 2026 Developer Workshop Proposal Repositoryhttps://github.com/BTCMedia/Bitcoin2026-DEV-TAKEOVER

NATO Testing AI-Powered Cockroach Spy Droneshttps://x.com/rowancheung/status/2031765919018733721

Anthropic Subsidizing Claude Code Compute Costshttps://x.com/bearlyai/status/2030051147264970893

Sats Invaders: Bitcoin-Paid Arcade Shooting Gamehttps://satsinvaders.com

Citadel Wire: High Signal News with Live Market Datahttps://citadelwire.com

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U.S. Government Contractor Arrested for Stealing $46M from U.S. Marshals Service — https://x.com/fbidirectorkash/status/2029574256959389933

Polymarket Prediction Market: Next Supreme Leader of Iran — https://polymarket.com/event/who-will-be-next-supreme-leader-of-iran-515

X Sharing User Data with Israel via Au10tix Verification — https://x.com/isfjmocha/status/2028407560382841305

GrapheneOS Partners with Motorola for Privacy-Focused Devices — https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsykcl7urukyh4g3s56rhlwthmyu66ggm9zr9q2sunjengtnug5geqx7ww3f

STRIKE Now Available in NY, Rolls Out Line of Credit Product

Bitwise Donates $233K to Bitcoin Open-Source Developers — https://x.com/bitwise/status/2029245847620530531

Gabon | Government Suspends Social Media Access Nationwide

Last week, officials in Gabon suspended access to social media platforms indefinitely. To justify the suspension, the country’s telecommunications agency said it observed “content that undermines human dignity, the country’s institutions, and national security” on digital platforms, but independent voices condemned the action as an obvious crackdown on dissent. Users of TikTok and Meta’s platforms, including Facebook and WhatsApp, reported widespread disruptions beginning Wednesday, Feb. 18, which have widely disrupted people’s ability to communicate. Freedom tech like Bitchat, which provides offline messaging capabilities, and Nostr, a protocol for decentralized, censorship-resistant communication, will continue to play important roles in preserving speech, expression, and communication as authoritarian regimes increasingly restrict internet freedom. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Stealth: Private Bitcoin Wallet Privacy Auditor Tool — https://x.com/brenorb/status/2028897371749269890

Cake Wallet Launches Lightning Network Integration — https://x.com/cakewallet/status/2028531059160182943

Tailrelay: Simplified Start9 Access via Tailscale — https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs9wqhks48fhvxz7j4ngl9mxgsqyempy7g2ywl4kn4km79shzuqulgsn4j65

YakiHonne Update: Scheduled Notes and New Features — https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsruj5rf9s6rqpzdvpsyc2end2jtn3hyqe8s8ggwld3pmn397r63nqm3p3rn

Wisp: New Android Nostr Client in Beta — https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsddm6payrqvnultvp6n7ck69jwax74e3f7y3278qnhutdu33amxpc5rm3ze

A Unified Command-Line Tool for All Google Workspace APIs, Built for Humans and AI Agents — https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli

OpenClaw Surpasses React in GitHub Stars — https://x.com/openclaw/status/2028347703621464481

AI Agents Prefer Bitcoin: Research on Monetary Preferences — https://moneyforai.org

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• Zoom scam https://therecord.media/north-korean-hackers-targeted-crypto-exec-clickfix

• Numo – Bitcoin Tap-to-Pay POS App for Android (Lightning & Ecash, Zero Fees)https://numopay.org/

• Mail Mike: AI Agent with Bitcoin Lightning Wallet – Prompt Injection Bounty Challengehttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs9jsvekaswngjd3nxldz832nm2ddmjjrlhk7hddzh8luv2rf3gprcdap9fa

• FIPS: Free Internetworking Peering System – Nostr Keypair Mesh Networking Protocolhttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsvd3nzk5p92fzp9z7p34m50039dwee0aemrvk9cl2jpng3kawsz0q6wuh7w

• Russia to Scale Internet Filtering with AI

Roskomnadzor, Russia's internet regulator, is building an AI-powered censorship system with a 2.27 billion ruble ($29 million) budget. According to analysts, the system will use AI to instantly block mirror sites hosting banned content and, more ominously, to identify the people creating those mirrors. The move would further restrict the space for dissent and independent online information in Russia. FinancialFreedomReport.org

• Large-scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs (arXiv Paper)https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

• Anthropic Exposes Industrial-Scale Distillation Attacks on Claude by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI & MiniMaxhttps://x.com/anthropicai/status/2025997928242811253

• Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums (DJI Romo Security Bug)https://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-vacuum-army/

• The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis – AI-Driven White-Collar Job Displacement Thought Experimenthttps://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

• US Strike on Mexico By…? (Polymarket Prediction Market)https://polymarket.com/event/us-strike-on-mexico-by

• RFK Jr. (Sec. Kennedy): Pesticides Are Toxic by Design – Supporting Trump’s Regenerative Agriculture Transitionhttps://x.com/seckennedy/status/2025760500793909389

• Rep. Thomas Massie: End Pre-Harvest Glyphosate Spraying on Wheathttps://xcancel.com/repthomasmassie/status/2025932814533697629

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The Watchers: How OpenAI, the US Government, and Persona Built an Identity Surveillance Machinehttps://vmfunc.re/blog/persona

Dutch Lawmakers Approve a 36% Tax on Unrealized Crypto, Stock, and Bond Gainshttps://www.imidaily.com/europe/dutch-lawmakers-approve-a-36-tax-on-unrealized-crypto-stock-and-bond-gains/

China | Push for Yuan as Global Reserve Currency

China has reiterated its ambition for the yuan to attain global reserve currency status. In remarks recently published by Qiushi, the Chinese Communist Party’s flagship journal used to convey policy intentions, Xi Jinping called for a “powerful currency” widely used in international trade, investment, and foreign-exchange markets. What’s new about these remarks is not their intended ambition, but rather how clearly those ambitions are stated to the public. Xi paired this plan with calls for a stronger central bank, globally competitive financial institutions, and tighter control of systemic financial risks.

PayPerQ (Primal.net)https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsz8xrf7qww033kl2vh3js2u5zyjnzu5kmepa67tk7w04ws0lnraccyr33p4

Kimi Claw | 24/7 AI Assistant with Long-term Memory & Automationhttps://www.kimi.com/bot

Pika Chat (Primal.net)https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqspwmauzykanup2wskpwgsppajn026gjn6erd5a7aq2ypxc73dncxspsgemn

Claw Creator Hired by OpenAI (X.com)https://x.com/bitcoinnewscom/status/2021978390870347923?s=46

EO: Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicideshttps://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/02/promoting-the-national-defense-by-ensuring-an-adequate-supply-of-elemental-phosphorus-and-glyphosate-based-herbicides/

White House Statement on Xhttps://x.com/whitehouse/status/2024654469745480105?s=46

Mav21

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- bnpl only fans https://x.com/elsathora/status/2020085470651380083

- Israelis Arrested Over Alleged Insider Polymarket Trades on IDF Military Secrets https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/israelis-arrested-over-alleged-insider-162604779.html

- Kenya | Central Bank Warns Banknote Bouquets Could Land You in Jail

Kenya’s central bank warned Kenyans in the lead-up to Valentine’s Day that making bouquets out of colorful banknotes could be punished with a seven-year jail term. Officials argue that banknotes used in bouquets are often “folded, rolled, glued, stapled, pinned,” or otherwise damaged, which they say compromises their integrity, defaces the national currency, and increases the cost of replacing damaged notes. FinancialFreedomReport.org

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- sparrow v2.4 https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsgvxmfn0paj90c8mp49uhasp0897w0rsc06csmf36ml76l66zuaygcncf58

- amboss magma mcp https://x.com/ambosstech/status/2021585530983739575

- openclaw + marmot/whitenoise https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqspplwzghp5f6fcd7yxkhhpqj8evl0jmd6eqqcknsfqz3rud04l9ugs5z6m5

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- opensats https://opensats.org/blog/sixteenth-wave-of-bitcoin-grants + https://bitcoinerjobs.com/job/2147148-technical-writereditor-opensats

- fed holds rates https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20260128a.htm

- kevin warsh names as trump pick for fed chair https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/fed-chair-nominee-kevin-warsh-01-30-26

- Q4 2025 GDP Data Coming Feb 20 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0376

- ai + bitcoin + nostr

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- uae trump crypto scam https://x.com/tier10k/status/2017780627894898788

- spacex acquires xai which acquired x https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6vnrye06po

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- 1m mau bitchat https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqswxnrd0gkawyz5s0r08sru88gdzxugv4nkgpv8z7v3zdfa8cahdagrgntay

- tether gold https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-28/tether-is-shaking-up-the-gold-market-with-massive-metal-hoard

- sni dinner https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqstcm3mgphzvg2q8yaxqj4jl57u0j5644gmd394gd260836gmn482c5s8lju

- Nicaragua | Economic Control Sustains the Ortega-Murillo Regime

In an investigative series published by Confidencial, reporters identify economic control as one of the four central pillars sustaining the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. The regime increasingly relies on restrictive controls over civil society’s monetary flows to punish dissent. In 2023, the regime froze the bank accounts of institutions affiliated with the Catholic Church, which led a Nicaraguan seminary to cease operations. Since 2018, thousands of NGOs have been forced to close or had their assets seized for alleged financial violations. In Nicaragua, authoritarian financial control is a primary way to stifle civil society. FinancialFreedomReport.org

- cove android https://x.com/covewallet/status/2016172119751594243?s=46

- opensats year in review https://opensats.org/blog/2025-year-in-review

- Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumukkala-chatgpt-00749361

- tiktok us immediately starts data collection after acquisition https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsw56zur9g00dq55xlsawjgyh7yd4syd34zdy8a7ek6aavkhnnq5zs8ed70a

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- gold https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=BTC&to=XAU

- hrf park ai hackathon https://hrf.org/latest/announcing-the-ai-hack-for-freedom-hackathon-winners/

- bitchat sim https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsg437vjev8pged85x5ynqly7cw834ru2z24l7w950m6mhrjlnlz4c5uft8z

- geyser banned on insta https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsxpul50g4y4spv0t20tn09sfdvte5h9ekt3n2xjjqgr280f3gmkhg279wqp

- steak n shake treasury https://x.com/SteaknShake/status/2012346855451931045

- 21 cents bitcoin bonus https://x.com/willreeves/status/2013727933701997043

- bitcoin park schedule https://bitcoinpark.com/schedule

- city projections 2075 https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqszp5ch4mn0f3kpamv6648qngleju4gh6n9d0s48a9zc98l3j973ss0q33jf

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- iran blackout, netblocks https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsqv6kehn575srnw8h3plkcqnzhnq49vfjl28t8mjagx8nl7ffwegqkz6vl4 + https://x.com/netblocks/status/2011838716562542678

- uganda vote today https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsryfpnnz4uzmgkusjthcdcffewrtxr93w3quvplgtkfp4zwcwva7q7xxhhg

- powell video https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsfpdlw0s39zg90zm5q4uhxdaszjefgw33h9rj3cxw0g30ykpuh5ks8y97un

- bitcoin policy institute launches office in dc https://x.com/bitcoinpolicy/status/2011123599672053842

- andreas finney prize https://hrf.org/program/financial-freedom/finney-prize/about-andreas-antonopoulos/

- meshtastic bitchat bridge https://github.com/evansmj/firmware-bitchat-plugin/releases/tag/v1-bitchat-beta

- hrf bdf https://hrf.org/latest/hrfs-bitcoin-development-fund-announces-support-for-22-projects-worldwide/

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- maduro raid

- bitbonds bet

- coinswap v0.2.0 https://github.com/citadel-tech/coinswap/releases/tag/v0.2.0

- joinmarket ng https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs25q0x58n7agh0xfk02vefq9wk3f4k2z2pwvlxhydrrypdux6txgqgrcnnv

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- third ledger data leak https://x.com/zachxbt/status/2008139053544194545

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- soapminer hurt https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsx795fjn4d5sgvlk6n8d2kc7euhvv25rr9pl5e0hcvz697ha7448sf6ljlw

- silver squeeze continues

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- hrf freedom tech projects recap https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/hrfs-weekly-financial-freedom-report-9102864

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- silver squeeze? https://x.com/BullTheoryio/status/2004567040389198060

- United Arab Emirates | CBDC Rolls Out as “Free” Amid Expanding Financial Surveillance

The United Arab Emirates’ central bank announced that the first phase of its Digital Dirham central bank digital currency (CBDC) will be offered free to users and small businesses, framing the rollout as a cost-saving upgrade to payments. But “free” at launch does not mean neutral. As a direct central bank liability, the Digital Dirham gives the state full visibility into transactions and the power to impose future fees, conditions, or negative interest rates once adoption is established. The news follows the UAE’s first state-to-state CBDC transaction conducted via the multi-CBDC mBridge platform, which links the UAE with China and other authoritarian states in a shared, programmable settlement system. FinancialFreedomReport.org

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- bitcoin optech year in review https://x.com/bitcoinoptech/status/2002038834003902502

- venezuela drone concern https://medium.com/@mcnai002/the-venezuelan-drone-crisis-313dad18497d

- chinese cargo ship convert https://x.com/rickjoe_pla/status/2004128671645458617

- trump fusion

- glyohosates https://x.com/wallstreetmav/status/2002253288495022376

3:59 – Merry Christmas, Silver squeeze

18:26 – Oslo airport bitcoin

20:44 – Dashboard

22:44 – Free Samourai

24:44 – Heatpunks

25:59 – HRF Story of the Week

27:59 – EU censoring US

31:59 – Chats and boosts

35:34 – Software updates

38:24 – Venezuelan drone crisis

47:19 – Epstein files

52:59 – Glyphosates

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- free samourai https://billandkeonne.org/

- jade vulnerability https://blog.blockstream.com/jade-security-disclosure/

- california strike loans https://x.com/strike/status/2001341268375568560

- Fold Becomes First Public Bitcoin Financial Services Company to Operate Nationwide Through BitGo’s Federally Chartered Trust Framework https://investor.foldapp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/fold-becomes-first-public-bitcoin-financial-services-company

- BRICS | Digital Currency Launched

The BRICS monetary bloc has launched a working prototype of a digital currency known as the “Unit,” backed by a basket of precious metals and BRICS national currencies. The first 100 Units were issued in a pilot led by Russia’s Institute for Economic Strategies. The BRICS bloc includes many authoritarian or hybrid authoritarian regimes that use capital controls, censorship, and financial surveillance to manage dissent. A state-designed, programmable digital currency rail used across multiple authoritarian states could harden those powers. FinancialFreedomReport.org

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- pear pass https://x.com/tether_to/status/2001269408296058890

- sats buddy https://github.com/reez/SatsBuddy

- venezuela oil blockade https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-orders-blockade-sanctioned-oil-tankers-leaving-entering-venezuela-2025-12-16/

- director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center was shot to death https://apnews.com/article/mit-shooting-nuno-fg-loureiro-portugal-f310824e354180816c33c9f40c0c5195

3:59 – Opening riff

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24:24 – China ban

28:09 – Free Samourai

35:19 – Jade disclosure

39:34 – Strike CA loans

43:24 – Fold

47:54 – HRF Story of the Week

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- gridless jua kali miners https://x.com/gridlesscompute/status/1996481192376533218

- bitcoin after hours https://x.com/ericbalchunas/status/1998424357232922883

- India | NPCI Confirms CBDC is Live With Spending Controls

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) confirmed that India’s digital rupee CBDC is live with partner banks and is being used by the state for subsidy payments. At India Blockchain Week, an NPCI consultant shared that the digital rupee can be restricted for specific purposes, approved merchants, and particular locations. For example, recent transfers of the programmable CBDC for farmers and livestock owners limited purchases to “approved inputs” with geographic tagging enabled. The CBDC is compatible with India’s state-run payment system, known as Unified Payment Interface (UPI), enabling users to pay with the digital rupee by scanning existing UPI QR codes. FinancialFreedomReport.org

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- Hash-based Signature Schemes for Bitcoin https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/2203.pdf

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- ai glasses face recognition https://x.com/pascal_bornet/status/1997215380423495938

- carvana, $cvna https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CVNA/

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40:00 - Boosts

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- free samourai https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/pardoning-the-samourai-developers-would-correct-a-misapplication-of-federal-law-and-protect-the-future-of-non-custodial-software + https://primal.net/gary/an-open-letter-to-the-senators-of-the-united-states-why-developer-protections-are-essential-for-safeguarding-constitutional-rights-and-national-security-in-cyberspace

- strategy usd reserve https://www.strategy.com/press/strategy-announces-establishment-of-1-44-billion-usd-reserve-and-updates-fy-2025-guidance_12-1-2025

- vanguard enables crypto etfs https://www.theblock.co/post/380997/vanguard-clients-trade-funds-crypto-bitcoin-xrp-solana-starting-week-bloomberg

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- China | Central Bank Vows Digital Asset Crackdown

The People’s Bank of China reaffirmed its hostility toward digital assets and announced it would increase scrutiny of stablecoins. In a statement, the central bank warned of rising speculation and promised stricter enforcement against peer-to-peer stablecoin activity, expressing particular concern over customer identification requirements and anti-money-laundering controls. “Virtual currencies do not hold the same legal status as fiat currency and cannot be used as legal tender in the market,” the central bank said. It added that it will “intensify efforts to combat related illegal financial activities” to maintain financial stability.

- dell funds kids https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/12/landmark-dell-gift-supercharges-trump-accounts-for-americas-kids/

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- polyglobe https://x.com/pizzintwatch/status/1993346450084778439

- google insider polymarket https://x.com/jeonghaeju/status/1996462116094480464

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19:19 - Dashboard

22:59 - Free Samourai

28:59 - Strategy stacking dollars

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- free samourai https://billandkeonne.org

- record morning for strike

- block dc campaign https://x.com/milessuter/status/1990836550557442252

- bitcoin for america act https://davidson.house.gov/2025/11/rep-warren-davidson-introduces-the-bitcoin-for-america-act

- kraken $20b valuation https://fortune.com/2025/11/18/kraken-citadel-securities-ken-griffin-800-million-fundraise/

- dc pubkey launch https://x.com/intangiblecoins/status/1991662771852005817

- United Arab Emirates | First CBDC Transaction Completed

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) completed its first government-to-government transaction with its Digital Dirham central bank digital currency (CBDC). This initiative was part of the CBDC’s pilot phase and was implemented using the mBridge platform. Officials say this marks a move toward domestic rollout, with more widespread adoption planned across both public and private sectors. The UAE deploys an extensive and sophisticated surveillance tool system across public spaces and digital communications, raising concerns that placing transactions on a state-controlled CBDC ledger would further centralize visibility over everyday financial activity.

In Context: Project mBridge connects the CBDCs of China, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, and Thailand into a unified, programmable settlement system. Designed to give central banks real-time visibility and control over cross-border flows, the surveillance-ready platform risks exporting the financial governance model of authoritarian states. FinancialFreedomReport.org

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- cloudflare outage

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- square enables 4m merchants to accept bitcoin + major cashapp updates

- record strike volumes today https://x.com/Strike/status/1989410689308655913

- tether commits $100m for rumble advertising https://x.com/paoloardoino/status/1987883090228703274 + https://x.com/chrispavlovski/status/1987897478432039188

- 50 year mortgages and 15 year car loans

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- Thailand | New Anti-Scam Measures Implemented

The Bank of Thailand announced new measures to enhance monitoring of payments, financial institutions, and money transfer services to combat online scams and financial fraud. Governor Vitai Ratanakorn said the central bank will step up due diligence, prioritize investigations into suspicious transactions, and require immediate reporting of irregular activity from banks, currency exchanges, and gold traders. While the policy aims to disrupt transnational criminal networks engaged in online scams and human trafficking, experts fear such a development may lead to broader surveillance of digital transactions and payments, which could threaten the privacy of many Southeast Asian dissidents based in Thailand. FinancialFreedomReport.org

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4:00 - Dump

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33:20 - 50 year mortgages

42:20 - Robinhood cash

44:40 - Vine is back baybeeee

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- steak n shake goes all in on bitcoin https://x.com/SteaknShake/status/1984298263508324442

- donate monthly to opensats https://opensats.org/monthly

- treasury secretary bessent wishes bitcoin happy birthday https://x.com/SecScottBessent/status/1984378179809599619

- bitcoin core kernel api released after years of development https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsvf55rlv4pxcj9y9j2rshgvwhevc5fxfmq3m035z8ce2mxajtx0ks4k9xqx

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- Tanzania | Central Bank Denies Printing Money to Finance Elections

Public concern over Tanzania’s monetary credibility grew after online criticism alleged that the central bank was printing money to finance the October general elections. The central bank dismissed the claims as “false and dangerous” and reaffirmed that currency issuance follows legal and economic guidelines. Earlier this year, the Tanzanian shilling was the world’s worst-performing currency, fueling doubts about the government’s fiscal discipline and transparency. FinancialFreedomReport.org

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- block (xyz) earnings are today

3:59 - Opening riff

12:44 - Marty presenting at Penn

14:59 - Dashboard

24:09 - Steak n Shake SBR

29:19 - Conner Brown interview

35:19 - Samourai sentencing

39:29 - Bessent on 10/31

44:29 - Mamdani win

56:09 - Core kernel api

59:29 - 444 Softfork Predyx

1:06:24 - HRF Story of the Week

1:08:04 - Boosts

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- update your mints https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsfwvwg6glee3wzeu5cr905y4fkapfgldvyfwupa0q5v59esl6ekpsvksz0x

- bip 444 soft fork proposed https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2017

- Chain Code Delegation: Improving privacy in collaborative multisig https://bitkey.build/chain-code-delegation-improving-privacy-in-collaborative-multisig/?ref=tftc.io

- Advancements in Bitcoin and Lightning Wallets https://opensats.org/blog/advancements-in-bitcoin-and-lightning-wallets

- Digital Industrialization: Land, Labor & Capital https://www.ten31.xyz/insights/digital-land-labor-capital

- Fountain for Podcasters https://fountain.fm/podcasters

- HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund Supports 20 Projects Worldwide https://hrf.org/latest/hrfs-bitcoin-development-fund-supports-20-projects-worldwide/

- Replicatr https://github.com/coracle-social/replicatr

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- coinbase partners with samsung https://www.coinbase.com/blog/Samsung-taps-Coinbase-to-bring-crypto-to-more-than-75-million-Galaxy-users

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- Signal sounds alarm on potential German Gov Chat Control support https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsr53e30jwl3y63fkzq40pdvu6m4cu2zsye4r39dd5qpc2zfvs734stdpsps

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- Saudi Arabia | Crown Prince Orders Rent Freeze in Riyadh

In Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has ordered a five-year freeze on residential and commercial rents in the capital of Riyadh. This follows a sharp rise in rent prices in recent years, a trend that the policy aims to curb. Violations face steep financial punishments. Property owners who violate the freeze risk fines of up to a year’s rent plus compensation for tenants. And whistleblowers can earn 20% of any fines collected. While billed as relief, rent freezes are a form of price control that can often yield adverse effects. Property owners may reduce upkeep, shift investments away from housing, or demand informal payments to compensate for the loss of income. This can create shortages and deteriorating conditions, making it disproportionately harder for new or lower-income residents to find affordable housing amid the backdrop of authoritarian rule and immense digital repression. FinancialFreedomReport.org

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