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CFTC Chairman Mike Selig: "The lesson from FTX’s failure should have been obvious." x.com/ChairmanSelig/…
Ex-Anthropic Researcher: “I think it is more likely than not that humanity loses control to these AI’s, and it could end in human extinction.”

"They're quietly rewriting what a dollar even is and it won't be obvious to anyone that anything happened." -@JohnArnoldTen31 We discuss: ⚡ The oil crisis that quietly reversed ⚡ Why Europe is breaking faster than 2011 ⚡ The plan to debase over default
CFTC Chairman Selig: "The Commodity Exchange Act has worked really well over the years. It has a very broad definition of commodity... people refer to Bitcoin and crypto as having a Lindy effect."
"Rome's silver coin lost 90% of its silver content in about a 200-year period." @JeremyRyanSlate breaks down the debasement blueprint that killed an empire. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
x.com/i/article/2107…
India banned BitChat. @greybtc explains why it's pointless.
Sam Altman to Vanity Fair: "I assume some people are using [AI extinction risk] as a way to justify power seeking, power concentration. But that doesn't mean there's not a real risk here...And society has got to decide on the particulars of the trade-offs here." x.com/VanityFair/sta…

The CFTC is proposing its first round of regulations for digital asset markets, using existing statutory authority after Congress failed to get the CLARITY Act to the president's desk. Chairman Selig criticized the previous administration's approach, saying the CFTC and SEC "chose to utilize their existing statutory authorities not to write new rules for these markets, but to regulate them by enforcement," driving firms offshore.
CFTC Chairman Selig: "The United States has a choice. We can either write the rules that define the next generation of financial markets, or we can let other countries write them for us."
Governments are figuring out that Bitcoin miners are the best methane cleanup crews on the planet. x.com/DSBatten/statu…

TFTC 798 w/ @JeremyRyanSlate: "The biggest warning would be if people start to stop using a currency." We discuss: ⚡ How Rome debased the denarius ⚡ Constantine's gold standard fix ⚡ Why 1913 made America an empire
CFTC Chairman Mike Selig: "The lesson from FTX’s failure should have been obvious." x.com/ChairmanSelig/…
Ex-Anthropic Researcher: “I think it is more likely than not that humanity loses control to these AI’s, and it could end in human extinction.”

"They're quietly rewriting what a dollar even is and it won't be obvious to anyone that anything happened." -@JohnArnoldTen31 We discuss: ⚡ The oil crisis that quietly reversed ⚡ Why Europe is breaking faster than 2011 ⚡ The plan to debase over default
CFTC Chairman Selig: "The Commodity Exchange Act has worked really well over the years. It has a very broad definition of commodity... people refer to Bitcoin and crypto as having a Lindy effect."
"Rome's silver coin lost 90% of its silver content in about a 200-year period." @JeremyRyanSlate breaks down the debasement blueprint that killed an empire. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
x.com/i/article/2107…
India banned BitChat. @greybtc explains why it's pointless.
Sam Altman to Vanity Fair: "I assume some people are using [AI extinction risk] as a way to justify power seeking, power concentration. But that doesn't mean there's not a real risk here...And society has got to decide on the particulars of the trade-offs here." x.com/VanityFair/sta…

The CFTC is proposing its first round of regulations for digital asset markets, using existing statutory authority after Congress failed to get the CLARITY Act to the president's desk. Chairman Selig criticized the previous administration's approach, saying the CFTC and SEC "chose to utilize their existing statutory authorities not to write new rules for these markets, but to regulate them by enforcement," driving firms offshore.
CFTC Chairman Selig: "The United States has a choice. We can either write the rules that define the next generation of financial markets, or we can let other countries write them for us."
Governments are figuring out that Bitcoin miners are the best methane cleanup crews on the planet. x.com/DSBatten/statu…

TFTC 798 w/ @JeremyRyanSlate: "The biggest warning would be if people start to stop using a currency." We discuss: ⚡ How Rome debased the denarius ⚡ Constantine's gold standard fix ⚡ Why 1913 made America an empire
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