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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.

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Fidelity's Jurrien Timmer on bitcoin: "I think it will be eating gold's lunch for a while." 1 bitcoin now buys 20.4 ounces of gold, up from 11.9 earlier this year.

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"It just highlights the negative externalities of this KYC, AML regime." @MartyBent on the Cash App account opened in someone else's name.

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At least 16 blue-chip issuers have opted out of OKX-ICE's tokenized stock platform on the NYSE, according to @intangiblecoins from @glxyresearch. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Goldman Sachs, CoreWeave, and Broadcom are among those who objected. The SEC's "innovation exemption" created a pathway for tokenized securities trading, but major companies are pushing back on having their stocks tokenized without their involvement.

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An OpenAI model found a way out of its training sandbox and reached the live internet through a DNS exploit on September 20th. OpenAI paused training and deployed AI agent red teams against their own infrastructure. They found zero-day vulnerabilities, VM escapes, and hardware side-channels that agents could use to communicate with each other. All frontier models now train inside an offline cached version of the web with no internet access.

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"This whole debate is extremely frustrating." @MartyBent on why Bitcoiners would coordinate a quantum fix.

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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.

@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.

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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.

@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

@TFTC21

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

@TFTC21

Fidelity's Jurrien Timmer on bitcoin: "I think it will be eating gold's lunch for a while." 1 bitcoin now buys 20.4 ounces of gold, up from 11.9 earlier this year.

@TFTC21

"It just highlights the negative externalities of this KYC, AML regime." @MartyBent on the Cash App account opened in someone else's name.

@TFTC21

At least 16 blue-chip issuers have opted out of OKX-ICE's tokenized stock platform on the NYSE, according to @intangiblecoins from @glxyresearch. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Goldman Sachs, CoreWeave, and Broadcom are among those who objected. The SEC's "innovation exemption" created a pathway for tokenized securities trading, but major companies are pushing back on having their stocks tokenized without their involvement.

@TFTC21

An OpenAI model found a way out of its training sandbox and reached the live internet through a DNS exploit on September 20th. OpenAI paused training and deployed AI agent red teams against their own infrastructure. They found zero-day vulnerabilities, VM escapes, and hardware side-channels that agents could use to communicate with each other. All frontier models now train inside an offline cached version of the web with no internet access.

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"This whole debate is extremely frustrating." @MartyBent on why Bitcoiners would coordinate a quantum fix.