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@TFTC21AI agents can now buy things on the internet for you. Now imagine them running on bitcoin and Lightning. x.com/bot/status/209…
@TFTC21Kevin Warsh kicks off Jackson Hole with: "I can sum up my hikes with former Vice Chairman Don Cohn with two words: I survived."
@TFTC21Even Larry Summers questioned whether central banking could still stabilize the economy. x.com/parkeralewis/s…
@TFTC21The AI arms race we actually need.
@TFTC21Elizabeth Warren sends a letter to Scott Bessent criticizing Treasury's foreign exchange activity. Bessent responds by calling it "sciolistic," says she doesn't know the difference between a currency purchase and a swap, and offers to give her a personal tutorial on "Foreign Exchange for Dummies."
@TFTC21"Where is the new American dream? Where does it live? I think it lives in Bitcoin." - @americanhodl8
@TFTC21Core Lightning just patched vulnerabilities found during a surge of AI-generated security reports targeting open source Bitcoin projects. Update your nodes. x.com/core_ln/status…
@TFTC21.@americanhodl8 sold his car in his mid-20s, bought a $200 Chinese moped, and rode it around Las Vegas for 2 years in the desert heat stacking every dollar into bitcoin. His friends thought he lost his mind. One of them came back years later and admitted he was ahead of the curve.
@TFTC21French Bitcoin treasury firm Capital B raises €21M via private placement, with backing from Adam Back and TOBAM, to fund more BTC purchases and grow holdings toward 3,415.
@TFTC21Pakistan’s PVARA Chairman Bilal Bin Saqib on a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: “It’s about the future. It’s about preparing for the future.”
@TFTC21OpenAI is cutting off Cursor after the SpaceX acquisition, citing Elon Musk's history of violating contracts. Musk admitted under oath earlier this year that xAI violated OpenAI's terms of service. The AI wars are getting personal. x.com/openai/status/…
@TFTC21Why buy bitcoin from an exchange when you can mine it yourself? @simpleminingio hosts your ASIC and freshly mined sats go straight to your wallet. No KYC, no middleman. tftc.io/simplemining/
@TFTC21AI agents can now buy things on the internet for you. Now imagine them running on bitcoin and Lightning. x.com/bot/status/209…
@TFTC21Kevin Warsh kicks off Jackson Hole with: "I can sum up my hikes with former Vice Chairman Don Cohn with two words: I survived."
@TFTC21Even Larry Summers questioned whether central banking could still stabilize the economy. x.com/parkeralewis/s…
@TFTC21The AI arms race we actually need.
@TFTC21Elizabeth Warren sends a letter to Scott Bessent criticizing Treasury's foreign exchange activity. Bessent responds by calling it "sciolistic," says she doesn't know the difference between a currency purchase and a swap, and offers to give her a personal tutorial on "Foreign Exchange for Dummies."
@TFTC21"Where is the new American dream? Where does it live? I think it lives in Bitcoin." - @americanhodl8
@TFTC21Core Lightning just patched vulnerabilities found during a surge of AI-generated security reports targeting open source Bitcoin projects. Update your nodes. x.com/core_ln/status…
@TFTC21.@americanhodl8 sold his car in his mid-20s, bought a $200 Chinese moped, and rode it around Las Vegas for 2 years in the desert heat stacking every dollar into bitcoin. His friends thought he lost his mind. One of them came back years later and admitted he was ahead of the curve.
@TFTC21French Bitcoin treasury firm Capital B raises €21M via private placement, with backing from Adam Back and TOBAM, to fund more BTC purchases and grow holdings toward 3,415.
@TFTC21Pakistan’s PVARA Chairman Bilal Bin Saqib on a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: “It’s about the future. It’s about preparing for the future.”
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