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Jul 19, 2026inEconomics
The Bitaxe, Explained: The Open-Source Bitcoin Miner Anyone Can Run
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Jul 19, 2026inEconomics
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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3-day inflow streak+$55.6B all-time net
@TFTC21.@SaniExp spotted 600 BTC from March 2010 moving after 16.5 years of silence. Mined when bitcoin was worth fractions of a penny.
@TFTC21Rob Hamilton found a Bitcoin Core bug, used AI to isolate the fix, and shipped a PR before lunch. "I took the verbose error logs, dumped it into GPT 5.6 Daybreak, which isolated it to a one line of code change." x.com/Rob1Ham/status…
@TFTC21"The real problem is physicality. You can control bond yields with yield curve control, but it doesn't produce stuff." @TheMichaelEvery on why the US isn't capital constrained, it's physically constrained. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21"Everyone exports to the US is either in or out. It's a gun on the table moment." @TheMichaelEvery on how stablecoins could replace the petrodollar and rewire the global financial system. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21"You can't call this a cyclical inflation environment. It's a structural inflation environment until you can geopolitically tell me we have a decisive way to end both these wars." @TheMichaelEvery on why rates traders now need to be oil traders x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21x.com/i/article/2096…
@TFTC21Cleveland Browns DE Jared Verse spotted wearing a Satoshi Nakamoto t-shirt at an NFL preseason game.
@TFTC21TFTC 789 w/ @TheMichaelEvery: "The whole 45-year superstructure is unraveling. This is reverse perestroika, everyone's being told: you're with us, or against us." We discuss: ⚡ The reverse perestroika thesis ⚡ Inflation that won't leave ⚡ The grand strategy behind it all
@TFTC21Housing inventory keeps climbing. Listings for sale accelerated year-over-year in August, the biggest YoY jump since April, up 3.6% from last year and 1.22% from July. Meanwhile, median list prices slipped 1.28% YoY and 1.04% MoM. h/t @m3_melody
@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.@SaniExp spotted 600 BTC from March 2010 moving after 16.5 years of silence. Mined when bitcoin was worth fractions of a penny.
@TFTC21Rob Hamilton found a Bitcoin Core bug, used AI to isolate the fix, and shipped a PR before lunch. "I took the verbose error logs, dumped it into GPT 5.6 Daybreak, which isolated it to a one line of code change." x.com/Rob1Ham/status…
@TFTC21"The real problem is physicality. You can control bond yields with yield curve control, but it doesn't produce stuff." @TheMichaelEvery on why the US isn't capital constrained, it's physically constrained. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21"Everyone exports to the US is either in or out. It's a gun on the table moment." @TheMichaelEvery on how stablecoins could replace the petrodollar and rewire the global financial system. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21"You can't call this a cyclical inflation environment. It's a structural inflation environment until you can geopolitically tell me we have a decisive way to end both these wars." @TheMichaelEvery on why rates traders now need to be oil traders x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21x.com/i/article/2096…
@TFTC21Cleveland Browns DE Jared Verse spotted wearing a Satoshi Nakamoto t-shirt at an NFL preseason game.
@TFTC21TFTC 789 w/ @TheMichaelEvery: "The whole 45-year superstructure is unraveling. This is reverse perestroika, everyone's being told: you're with us, or against us." We discuss: ⚡ The reverse perestroika thesis ⚡ Inflation that won't leave ⚡ The grand strategy behind it all
@TFTC21Housing inventory keeps climbing. Listings for sale accelerated year-over-year in August, the biggest YoY jump since April, up 3.6% from last year and 1.22% from July. Meanwhile, median list prices slipped 1.28% YoY and 1.04% MoM. h/t @m3_melody
@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/
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