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Ducat is bringing UNIT's Bitcoin-backed stablecoin to Cashu ecash. Deposit UNIT, get Turbo UNIT. Send it as a message or QR code.

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A Dutch flower farmer is heating her greenhouse with Bitcoin miners instead of natural gas.

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Researcher Erica Windisch just dropped "Tailworm." 11 unpatched vulnerabilities in Tailscale SSH, headscale, app connectors, and the DERP relay. No coordinated disclosure. No vendor fix yet. The headlines say "hackers gain root access across servers." The community note on the viral post tells the real story: these flaws require an already-approved device inside your tailnet with SSH rules permitting access. Post-compromise lateral movement, not remote access from the internet. Tailscale SSH runs as root, skips traditional SSH auth, and on headscale, forwarding can't even be disabled. "Zero trust" marketing writing checks the architecture doesn't cash. Mitigations now: per-pair SSH grants, deny forwarding, tighten access policies.

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Japanese investors sold ¥3.43 trillion ($21.9 billion) of foreign bonds over the last 5 weeks, their longest selling streak in 4 years. Japan’s 10-year yield is up more than 80 bps this year.

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New IMF research: when governments suppress energy prices with producer subsidies, debt-to-GDP can rise up to 22x more than with targeted transfers. Consumer subsidies add 3x to 6.6x more.

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Keystone hardware wallet confirmed a customer data breach. Hackers accessed their website and exposed names, contact info, shipping addresses, and order details through Shopify API activity. Breach detected October 20, confirmed October 23. Recovery phrases, private keys, and wallet passwords were not compromised. Keystone warns affected customers to watch for phishing scams involving fake refunds, replacement devices, or order issues.

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Someone has been inscribing the same poem to the Bitcoin blockchain 26 times over the last two weeks. "Thoughtless quartz clocks drift, while blocks stack, each a strict proof, the timechain keeps score." @glxyresearch traced it to a single sender with ~0.327 BTC (~$26K) depositing to one custodial service over and over. The service pays it back within hours, the sender re-deposits with the poem attached. 14 round trips so far, 5.22 BTC of gross volume on 0.327 BTC of principal. The only leakage across 28 deposits is 8,015 sats (~$6.50) in mining fees. No laundering. Could be farming a volume metric, an integration test running in prod, or an agent handed a wallet and a reason to transact.

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"Where are they getting the dollars? Well, they have to sell something. They sell treasuries." @LukeGromen on oil shocks and treasuries.

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"Oil is the key driver of inflation, in my opinion." @MelMattison1 on oil and inflation.

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Maple now offers an abliterated DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with 1M context, running in attested enclaves. Refusals removed so security researchers, red teamers, and code auditors can actually work without hitting "I can't help with that." x.com/TryMapleAI/sta…

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Franklin Templeton registered two ETFs on Nasdaq this week. 95% large-cap US stocks, 5% bitcoin. Every dividend the stocks pay automatically buys more BTC. h/t @basedlayer

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Fidelity says Bitcoin's move from $100K to $200K "may happen much faster" than the 16 years it took to hit six figures.

@TFTC21

Ducat is bringing UNIT's Bitcoin-backed stablecoin to Cashu ecash. Deposit UNIT, get Turbo UNIT. Send it as a message or QR code.

@TFTC21

A Dutch flower farmer is heating her greenhouse with Bitcoin miners instead of natural gas.

@TFTC21

Researcher Erica Windisch just dropped "Tailworm." 11 unpatched vulnerabilities in Tailscale SSH, headscale, app connectors, and the DERP relay. No coordinated disclosure. No vendor fix yet. The headlines say "hackers gain root access across servers." The community note on the viral post tells the real story: these flaws require an already-approved device inside your tailnet with SSH rules permitting access. Post-compromise lateral movement, not remote access from the internet. Tailscale SSH runs as root, skips traditional SSH auth, and on headscale, forwarding can't even be disabled. "Zero trust" marketing writing checks the architecture doesn't cash. Mitigations now: per-pair SSH grants, deny forwarding, tighten access policies.

@TFTC21

Japanese investors sold ¥3.43 trillion ($21.9 billion) of foreign bonds over the last 5 weeks, their longest selling streak in 4 years. Japan’s 10-year yield is up more than 80 bps this year.

@TFTC21

New IMF research: when governments suppress energy prices with producer subsidies, debt-to-GDP can rise up to 22x more than with targeted transfers. Consumer subsidies add 3x to 6.6x more.

@TFTC21

Keystone hardware wallet confirmed a customer data breach. Hackers accessed their website and exposed names, contact info, shipping addresses, and order details through Shopify API activity. Breach detected October 20, confirmed October 23. Recovery phrases, private keys, and wallet passwords were not compromised. Keystone warns affected customers to watch for phishing scams involving fake refunds, replacement devices, or order issues.

@TFTC21

Someone has been inscribing the same poem to the Bitcoin blockchain 26 times over the last two weeks. "Thoughtless quartz clocks drift, while blocks stack, each a strict proof, the timechain keeps score." @glxyresearch traced it to a single sender with ~0.327 BTC (~$26K) depositing to one custodial service over and over. The service pays it back within hours, the sender re-deposits with the poem attached. 14 round trips so far, 5.22 BTC of gross volume on 0.327 BTC of principal. The only leakage across 28 deposits is 8,015 sats (~$6.50) in mining fees. No laundering. Could be farming a volume metric, an integration test running in prod, or an agent handed a wallet and a reason to transact.

@TFTC21

"Where are they getting the dollars? Well, they have to sell something. They sell treasuries." @LukeGromen on oil shocks and treasuries.

@TFTC21

"Oil is the key driver of inflation, in my opinion." @MelMattison1 on oil and inflation.

@TFTC21

Maple now offers an abliterated DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with 1M context, running in attested enclaves. Refusals removed so security researchers, red teamers, and code auditors can actually work without hitting "I can't help with that." x.com/TryMapleAI/sta…

@TFTC21

Franklin Templeton registered two ETFs on Nasdaq this week. 95% large-cap US stocks, 5% bitcoin. Every dividend the stocks pay automatically buys more BTC. h/t @basedlayer

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Fidelity says Bitcoin's move from $100K to $200K "may happen much faster" than the 16 years it took to hit six figures.