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Housing affordability has hit an all-time low as the income needed to buy a median-priced home far outpaces median household earnings.

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Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng arrives at JPMorgan HQ in NYC to meet Treasury Secretary Bessent and Trade Rep Greer. Trade, AI, and critical minerals top the agenda ahead of Xi's first US visit since 2023.

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Saudi Arabia leaving mBridge is getting a lot of attention today. Meanwhile, CIPS transaction volume just hit ~50 trillion CNY and the trend line doesn't care about headlines. Every "this will stop de-dollarization" moment, Iran kicked from SWIFT, Russian sanctions, chip export bans, trade wars, has been followed by acceleration, not reversal. The plumbing is being built whether we pay attention or not.

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Chinese state media is spreading fear about US data centers while celebrating AI wins at home. 80% of Chinese citizens are optimistic about AI. Only 17% of Americans are. @SamLyman33 explains why China wants Americans to hate AI.

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The anti-data center crowd claims to stand up for the working class. The unions disagree. @SamLyman33 explains why 40+ labor groups are fighting against data center regulations.

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Alaska pays its residents to live there. Rural counties could be next. @SamLyman33 explains why AI infrastructure is the new oil fund.

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Blink Wallet paused all services today after an attacker drained funds from a "few dozen" custodial accounts. Non-custodial wallets were not affected. Blink says every affected user will be made whole and is deploying a patch, but they haven't disclosed the attack path or total amount stolen yet. This comes amid a rough stretch for Lightning apps: BTCPay Server had a critical bug exposing LND macaroons that led to real fund losses, LDK patched two vulnerabilities, and Boltz shut down after AI-assisted attacks overwhelmed their team's ability to patch fast enough.

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Greg Brockman claims OpenAI’s Astra model has reached a threshold that “is pretty reasonable to call it AGI.”

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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce is pushing for 24-hour stock trading. Extended hours currently account for less than 1% of total NMS stock volume. Meanwhile, bitcoin has traded 24/7/365 since day one. The legacy system is slowly discovering what bitcoin figured out 17 years ago.

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TFTC 793 w/ @SamLyman33: "The same Chinese state media sowing fear about data centers here is celebrating AI milestones back in China. It's the coup of the year." We discuss: ⚡ China's anti-AI psyop ⚡ The $278M money trail ⚡ Data center dividends

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VanEck's Matthew Sigel: "We track the number of countries that are mining or holding bitcoin at the sovereign level and that goes up every year."

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Figure just dropped its humanoid robot into 30 stranger's homes and it started doing laundry and making beds with zero retraining.

@TFTC21

Housing affordability has hit an all-time low as the income needed to buy a median-priced home far outpaces median household earnings.

@TFTC21

Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng arrives at JPMorgan HQ in NYC to meet Treasury Secretary Bessent and Trade Rep Greer. Trade, AI, and critical minerals top the agenda ahead of Xi's first US visit since 2023.

@TFTC21

Saudi Arabia leaving mBridge is getting a lot of attention today. Meanwhile, CIPS transaction volume just hit ~50 trillion CNY and the trend line doesn't care about headlines. Every "this will stop de-dollarization" moment, Iran kicked from SWIFT, Russian sanctions, chip export bans, trade wars, has been followed by acceleration, not reversal. The plumbing is being built whether we pay attention or not.

@TFTC21

Chinese state media is spreading fear about US data centers while celebrating AI wins at home. 80% of Chinese citizens are optimistic about AI. Only 17% of Americans are. @SamLyman33 explains why China wants Americans to hate AI.

@TFTC21

The anti-data center crowd claims to stand up for the working class. The unions disagree. @SamLyman33 explains why 40+ labor groups are fighting against data center regulations.

@TFTC21

Alaska pays its residents to live there. Rural counties could be next. @SamLyman33 explains why AI infrastructure is the new oil fund.

@TFTC21

Blink Wallet paused all services today after an attacker drained funds from a "few dozen" custodial accounts. Non-custodial wallets were not affected. Blink says every affected user will be made whole and is deploying a patch, but they haven't disclosed the attack path or total amount stolen yet. This comes amid a rough stretch for Lightning apps: BTCPay Server had a critical bug exposing LND macaroons that led to real fund losses, LDK patched two vulnerabilities, and Boltz shut down after AI-assisted attacks overwhelmed their team's ability to patch fast enough.

@TFTC21

Greg Brockman claims OpenAI’s Astra model has reached a threshold that “is pretty reasonable to call it AGI.”

@TFTC21

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce is pushing for 24-hour stock trading. Extended hours currently account for less than 1% of total NMS stock volume. Meanwhile, bitcoin has traded 24/7/365 since day one. The legacy system is slowly discovering what bitcoin figured out 17 years ago.

@TFTC21

TFTC 793 w/ @SamLyman33: "The same Chinese state media sowing fear about data centers here is celebrating AI milestones back in China. It's the coup of the year." We discuss: ⚡ China's anti-AI psyop ⚡ The $278M money trail ⚡ Data center dividends

@TFTC21

VanEck's Matthew Sigel: "We track the number of countries that are mining or holding bitcoin at the sovereign level and that goes up every year."

@TFTC21

Figure just dropped its humanoid robot into 30 stranger's homes and it started doing laundry and making beds with zero retraining.