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The cost of selling bitcoin isn't the price today. It's the price you'll never buy it back at. @AvenCard gives you a line of credit backed by your bitcoin. Up to $1M, rates from 8.99%, no rehypothecation. 2% unlimited cash back on every purchase. tftc.io/bitcoin-visa-c…

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The US Treasury withdrew the "mixer rule" that would have threatened financial privacy tools. Sounds like a win. It's not. On the same day, SDNY weaponized a new Second Circuit precedent from the Sterlingov case against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm. The court ruled that all deposits into a mixer further a criminal conspiracy because they increase the pool of funds "shuffling around and obscuring identities." As @theragetech reports, "it could mean that the United States might be able to charge anyone transacting with cryptocurrency mixers with conspiracy to commit money laundering." The mixer rule is dead, but regulation by prosecution is alive and well. The government doesn't need a rule when it has a precedent. therage.co/mixer-rule-ste…

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Jon Stewart to ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon on The Daily Show: "They've strip-mined the entirety of human accomplishment for their models, which is our proprietary information, and created systems that we're not allowed to see into because it's their proprietary information." Coxon's response on the AI utopia: "No jobs, universal high income... the dividends from entirely automated economic production can be distributed among real humans." Stewart: "I feel like they're burying that really dangerous theory under a mountain of utopian bullshit."

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CFTC Chairman Selig: "For years, entrepreneurs building on the new frontier of finance faced uncertainty about whether there was a place for them in our markets. We are giving them an answer: Build here. Build markets that are open, competitive, and worthy of the public's trust. Build under American rules and American standards." x.com/ChairmanSelig/…

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On-chain data shows 833.6 BTC moved from U.S. government-labeled wallets to Coinbase Prime today. x.com/TimechainIndex…

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Conduit Technology is suing Tether for freezing $2.76 million in USDT from its treasury wallet. The complaint, filed in SDNY, says Tether's T3 Financial Crime Unit froze the wallet on its own initiative in connection with a Brazilian Federal Police investigation into unrelated third parties. Conduit says it was never a target of the investigation, Brazilian authorities confirmed its wallet was not on their list, and the wallet didn't even exist when the flagged parties last used Conduit's platform. "Tether has no legal entitlement to these funds and no claim to them. The funds are unequivocally Conduit's, but Tether has taken them and is denying Conduit access to them." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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Ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon on Patrick Bet-David's show: "When Dario is saving the world, I think saving the world and taking over the world overlap quite heavily." On whether Anthropic could take on the U.S. government: "If you think you're the safe one, and China's building it unsafe, or you think the US government's being silly, and you have a very powerful technology, it's not off the table to consider taking actions against the US government. And I think if anyone would do that, it's Anthropic." x.com/VigilantFox/st…

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BTCPay Server 2.4.5 drops with security hardening, faster invoices, and a major cleanup of the Docker deployment. Tor is no longer included by default. "Making Tor opt-in reduces the default attack surface and resource use without taking the choice away from operators who rely on it." Existing Tor users need to explicitly re-enable it after updating.

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CFTC Chair Michael Selig on CNBC: "I am absolutely disappointed in Congress in not getting this bill to the President's desk... But we've got statutory authority and we're going to use it. The SEC is doing the same."

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Google just open sourced EmbeddingGemma 2, a multimodal model that runs on-device and unifies text, images, video, audio, and code into a single embedding space. Built on the Gemma 4 architecture, Apache 2.0 license.

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Human Rights Foundation's Christian Keroles says they've leaned into freedom technology like bitcoin to "enable activists in the fight for freedom."

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The CFTC published a proposed framework for regulating crypto spot transactions using existing authority. No new legislation required. Chairman Selig says the agency is following "President Trump's directive to propose a federal crypto asset regulatory market structure using the CFTC's existing statutory authorities." The proposal includes a voluntary federal registration path for spot exchanges and a new "crypto asset market" category. Comments open for 60 days. cftc.gov/PressRoom/Pres…

@TFTC21

The cost of selling bitcoin isn't the price today. It's the price you'll never buy it back at. @AvenCard gives you a line of credit backed by your bitcoin. Up to $1M, rates from 8.99%, no rehypothecation. 2% unlimited cash back on every purchase. tftc.io/bitcoin-visa-c…

@TFTC21

The US Treasury withdrew the "mixer rule" that would have threatened financial privacy tools. Sounds like a win. It's not. On the same day, SDNY weaponized a new Second Circuit precedent from the Sterlingov case against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm. The court ruled that all deposits into a mixer further a criminal conspiracy because they increase the pool of funds "shuffling around and obscuring identities." As @theragetech reports, "it could mean that the United States might be able to charge anyone transacting with cryptocurrency mixers with conspiracy to commit money laundering." The mixer rule is dead, but regulation by prosecution is alive and well. The government doesn't need a rule when it has a precedent. therage.co/mixer-rule-ste…

@TFTC21

Jon Stewart to ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon on The Daily Show: "They've strip-mined the entirety of human accomplishment for their models, which is our proprietary information, and created systems that we're not allowed to see into because it's their proprietary information." Coxon's response on the AI utopia: "No jobs, universal high income... the dividends from entirely automated economic production can be distributed among real humans." Stewart: "I feel like they're burying that really dangerous theory under a mountain of utopian bullshit."

@TFTC21

CFTC Chairman Selig: "For years, entrepreneurs building on the new frontier of finance faced uncertainty about whether there was a place for them in our markets. We are giving them an answer: Build here. Build markets that are open, competitive, and worthy of the public's trust. Build under American rules and American standards." x.com/ChairmanSelig/…

@TFTC21

On-chain data shows 833.6 BTC moved from U.S. government-labeled wallets to Coinbase Prime today. x.com/TimechainIndex…

@TFTC21

Conduit Technology is suing Tether for freezing $2.76 million in USDT from its treasury wallet. The complaint, filed in SDNY, says Tether's T3 Financial Crime Unit froze the wallet on its own initiative in connection with a Brazilian Federal Police investigation into unrelated third parties. Conduit says it was never a target of the investigation, Brazilian authorities confirmed its wallet was not on their list, and the wallet didn't even exist when the flagged parties last used Conduit's platform. "Tether has no legal entitlement to these funds and no claim to them. The funds are unequivocally Conduit's, but Tether has taken them and is denying Conduit access to them." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

@TFTC21

Ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon on Patrick Bet-David's show: "When Dario is saving the world, I think saving the world and taking over the world overlap quite heavily." On whether Anthropic could take on the U.S. government: "If you think you're the safe one, and China's building it unsafe, or you think the US government's being silly, and you have a very powerful technology, it's not off the table to consider taking actions against the US government. And I think if anyone would do that, it's Anthropic." x.com/VigilantFox/st…

@TFTC21

BTCPay Server 2.4.5 drops with security hardening, faster invoices, and a major cleanup of the Docker deployment. Tor is no longer included by default. "Making Tor opt-in reduces the default attack surface and resource use without taking the choice away from operators who rely on it." Existing Tor users need to explicitly re-enable it after updating.

@TFTC21

CFTC Chair Michael Selig on CNBC: "I am absolutely disappointed in Congress in not getting this bill to the President's desk... But we've got statutory authority and we're going to use it. The SEC is doing the same."

@TFTC21

Google just open sourced EmbeddingGemma 2, a multimodal model that runs on-device and unifies text, images, video, audio, and code into a single embedding space. Built on the Gemma 4 architecture, Apache 2.0 license.

@TFTC21

Human Rights Foundation's Christian Keroles says they've leaned into freedom technology like bitcoin to "enable activists in the fight for freedom."

@TFTC21

The CFTC published a proposed framework for regulating crypto spot transactions using existing authority. No new legislation required. Chairman Selig says the agency is following "President Trump's directive to propose a federal crypto asset regulatory market structure using the CFTC's existing statutory authorities." The proposal includes a voluntary federal registration path for spot exchanges and a new "crypto asset market" category. Comments open for 60 days. cftc.gov/PressRoom/Pres…