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Jul 19, 2026inEconomics
The Bitaxe, Explained: The Open-Source Bitcoin Miner Anyone Can Run
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Is Bitcoin Mining Worth It in 2026? Home vs. Hosted, Honestly
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Sep 4, 2026inBitcoin Brief
If GPT-6 Astra Is Legit, Governments Will Tell Us
Astra's benchmark jump looks impressive. The bigger test is whether rival governments treat it as strategic leverage in the global economic and monetary fight.
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+$730.9M
Net inflow · Sep 3, 2026
2-day inflow streak+$55.4B all-time net
@TFTC21Anthropic called SFPD after a user allegedly told Claude he had purchased an AR-15 and had CEO Dario Amodei "in his sights." The user told the SF Standard he was "just fucking around." Threats against AI leaders are up sevenfold since February, per threat intelligence firm Liferaft. Anthropic's privacy policy allows the company to report threats of violence within chats to law enforcement.
@TFTC21Sam Altman says GPT-6 Astra is not the model OpenAI paused over cybersecurity concerns: "Astra has been done training for a while. The model that we recently talked about pausing is a future model."
@TFTC21Your bitcoin shouldn't come with a surveillance file attached. @simpleminingio lets you mine your own, hosted at their facility, paid out directly to your wallet. tftc.io/simplemining/
@TFTC21"Insurance companies would rather own Treasuries at 5% all day long than private credit. The fact that they're not tells you the problem is way worse than anybody thinks." @LukeGromen on the hidden crisis at the long end. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21Sam Altman announces GPT-6 Astra is now available to Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users. "Thank you for the patience." x.com/sama/status/20…
@TFTC21The Cybercab lets you game with a controller while it drives you around.
@TFTC21BitFuFu now holds 1,373 BTC after adding another 59 to its treasury.
@TFTC21Gemini said pack light. x.com/popbase/status…
@TFTC21"China's applying AI to continuously improve manufacturing, which is very deflationary, as opposed to the Western model which is 'let's create God in a box and then charge everybody to use it.'" @LukeGromen on why Chinese yields are at 1.4% while the West drives inflation. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21Trump signs EO so farmers and ranchers can butcher, process, package and sell meat across state lines. “We’re going to give farmers and ranchers the right to process their own food… so they don’t have to go through the Big Four processors.”
@TFTC21"This is a Western sovereign debt issue. Hyperscalers are the bond vigilantes, borrowing at 5-6% in a snake eating its tail dynamic." @LukeGromen on the collision between Big Tech's AI buildout and sovereign debt markets. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21x.com/i/article/2095…
@TFTC21Anthropic called SFPD after a user allegedly told Claude he had purchased an AR-15 and had CEO Dario Amodei "in his sights." The user told the SF Standard he was "just fucking around." Threats against AI leaders are up sevenfold since February, per threat intelligence firm Liferaft. Anthropic's privacy policy allows the company to report threats of violence within chats to law enforcement.
@TFTC21Sam Altman says GPT-6 Astra is not the model OpenAI paused over cybersecurity concerns: "Astra has been done training for a while. The model that we recently talked about pausing is a future model."
@TFTC21Your bitcoin shouldn't come with a surveillance file attached. @simpleminingio lets you mine your own, hosted at their facility, paid out directly to your wallet. tftc.io/simplemining/
@TFTC21"Insurance companies would rather own Treasuries at 5% all day long than private credit. The fact that they're not tells you the problem is way worse than anybody thinks." @LukeGromen on the hidden crisis at the long end. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21Sam Altman announces GPT-6 Astra is now available to Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users. "Thank you for the patience." x.com/sama/status/20…
@TFTC21The Cybercab lets you game with a controller while it drives you around.
@TFTC21BitFuFu now holds 1,373 BTC after adding another 59 to its treasury.
@TFTC21Gemini said pack light. x.com/popbase/status…
@TFTC21"China's applying AI to continuously improve manufacturing, which is very deflationary, as opposed to the Western model which is 'let's create God in a box and then charge everybody to use it.'" @LukeGromen on why Chinese yields are at 1.4% while the West drives inflation. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21Trump signs EO so farmers and ranchers can butcher, process, package and sell meat across state lines. “We’re going to give farmers and ranchers the right to process their own food… so they don’t have to go through the Big Four processors.”
@TFTC21"This is a Western sovereign debt issue. Hyperscalers are the bond vigilantes, borrowing at 5-6% in a snake eating its tail dynamic." @LukeGromen on the collision between Big Tech's AI buildout and sovereign debt markets. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21x.com/i/article/2095…
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