# TFTC — Truth for the Commoner > Money, markets, and AI, grounded in Bitcoin: daily news, The Commoner newsletter, the TFTC podcast, and open market datasets. Published from tftc.io. ## Use TFTC in your AI agent (MCP) - Server: https://mcp.tftc.io/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no auth). - ChatGPT server: https://mcp.tftc.io/chatgpt/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no auth; excludes the sponsor deals tool). - Ask about bitcoin ETF flows, Treasury auctions, T-bill rates and guest views, with source links. Your agent can call TFTC for a scheduled briefing. - Setup page: https://www.tftc.io/ai - Complete Markdown setup: https://www.tftc.io/ai.md - Privacy: https://www.tftc.io/privacy#mcp - Terms: https://www.tftc.io/terms#mcp - Support: https://www.tftc.io/ai#support - Free, read-only public content and data. No TFTC account or API key required. ## Data - [The Commoner Bitcoin ETF Tracker by TFTC](https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-etf-flows): TFTC's Bitcoin ETF Flows tracker, with the latest daily net inflows and outflows for every US spot Bitcoin ETF (IBIT, FBTC, GBTC, and the rest), with this week's and this month's totals, a per-fund leaderboard (latest session, past month, year to date, since launch), and the complete record since the January 11, 2024 launch: records, streaks, monthly archive tables and BTC price context. Updated twice daily as issuers report; the page shows when the data was last refreshed. - [Open JSON dataset](https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-etf-flows/data.json): the full machine-readable series — date, aggregate net flow (USD), per-fund breakdown, total net assets, and a daily BTC/USD mark. Licensed CC BY 4.0; please cite TFTC and link the tracker. - Monthly archive pages follow the pattern `https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-etf-flows/-` (e.g. /bitcoin-etf-flows/june-2026), each with the month's net flow, per-fund totals, full daily table and records. Rows are day-addressable via anchors (e.g. #june-25). - [Treasury Auction Results tracker](https://www.tftc.io/treasury-auctions): every US Treasury note, bond and TIPS auction since 2000 (bills, FRNs, the 20-year TIPS last sold in 2009, and three 2008 off-cycle reopenings excluded), with stop-out yield, change vs the prior auction, bid-to-cover, offering size, indirect/direct/primary-dealer shares of the competitive award, a link to Treasury's official results PDF, and a demand grade (Strong, Solid, Average, Soft, Weak) comparing each auction with the previous six of the same security. Also lists announced upcoming auctions. Refreshed shortly after each 1:00 pm ET close. TFTC does not publish auction tails (the when-issued yield is dealer data Treasury does not release). - One page per security at `https://www.tftc.io/treasury-auctions/`: 2-year-note, 3-year-note, 5-year-note, 7-year-note, 10-year-note, 20-year-bond, 30-year-bond, 5-year-tips, 10-year-tips, 30-year-tips. Each has the full auction history table (rows addressable by date anchor, e.g. /treasury-auctions/10-year-note#2026-09-09), yield history, bid-to-cover and buyer-mix charts, the next scheduled auction, and question-headed answers. - [T-Bill Rates](https://www.tftc.io/treasury-bills): the latest auction result for every regular Treasury bill (4, 6, 8, 13, 17, 26 and 52-week; cash management bills excluded) with the investment rate (bond-equivalent, comparable with a savings rate), the discount rate, the price per $100, what $10,000 of face value cost and earns to maturity, the next auction date, and full history since 2000. One page per term at `https://www.tftc.io/treasury-bills/` (4-week, 6-week, 8-week, 13-week, 17-week, 26-week, 52-week). Open JSON at https://www.tftc.io/treasury-bills/data.json (CC BY 4.0). Bill auctions close at 11:30 am ET and refresh shortly after. - [Open JSON dataset](https://www.tftc.io/treasury-auctions/data.json): the complete auction history with TFTC's derived shares, baselines, scores and grades, the grading method, and upcoming auctions. Licensed CC BY 4.0; source figures are US Treasury public domain. - AI Privacy Timeline: Maple's sourced record of AI privacy breaches, policy changes, overreach and regulation (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, Copilot and more). The original and canonical version is Maple's, at https://maple.ai/privacy-timeline; TFTC republishes it with credit at https://www.tftc.io/ai-privacy-timeline. Cite "Maple, AI privacy timeline (maple.ai/privacy-timeline)" under CC BY 4.0, and get the data from Maple at https://maple.ai/privacy-timeline/data.json. ## Content - [News](https://www.tftc.io/news): Bitcoin, markets, energy, and freedom-tech reporting, published daily. - [The Commoner](https://www.tftc.io/commoner): Marty Bent's free weekday newsletter. Full answers below. ## The Commoner Canonical page: https://www.tftc.io/commoner The older URL https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief permanently redirects there. Tagline: Truth for the Commoner, every weekday. Money, machines, and the people trying to control both. Each question below is also a visible FAQ on the page, with FAQPage JSON-LD. Anchors: - What is The Commoner? (https://www.tftc.io/commoner#faq-what-is-the-commoner) Marty Bent's weekday letter. Money, machines, and the people trying to control both. A daily field report: what's breaking, who's building an exit, and what you can do about it. - What does The Commoner cover? (https://www.tftc.io/commoner#faq-what-does-the-commoner-cover) Who has your money, your data, and your compute, and what you can still keep. A recent letter might be oil flows, a bill in Congress, an AI lab, or a bank coming apart. - What is in an issue of The Commoner? (https://www.tftc.io/commoner#faq-what-is-in-an-issue-of-the-commoner) Marty's Bent up top, his take for the day. Then Signals. Then Freedom Tech Corner, one concrete thing to do. Then a data snapshot. - Is The Commoner free? (https://www.tftc.io/commoner#faq-is-the-commoner-free) Yes. It shows up every weekday. The unsubscribe link is in the letter. - Who writes The Commoner? (https://www.tftc.io/commoner#faq-who-writes-the-commoner) Marty Bent. He writes it the way he talks. He's the founder of TFTC and a Managing Partner at Ten31. - What happened to Marty's Bent? (https://www.tftc.io/commoner#faq-what-happened-to-martys-bent) Same signal. He started it as Marty's Bent. It's called The Commoner now, and Marty's Bent is back on the lead. Every old issue is on /commoner. - [Podcast](https://www.tftc.io/podcast): Marty Bent's interview show. Full answers below. ## The TFTC Podcast Canonical page: https://www.tftc.io/podcast Each question below is also a visible FAQ on the page, with FAQPage JSON-LD. Anchors: - What is the TFTC podcast? (https://www.tftc.io/podcast#faq-what-is-the-tftc-podcast) Long conversations Marty Bent hosts. The writeup is on the episode page. The hour is on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. - What does the TFTC podcast talk about? (https://www.tftc.io/podcast#faq-what-does-the-tftc-podcast-talk-about) The same fight as the letter. Lately inflation, housing, the dollar, private credit, and the data centers going up to run the models. Some episodes go down to the machinery: energy, and who actually holds the keys. - Who hosts the TFTC podcast? (https://www.tftc.io/podcast#faq-who-hosts-the-tftc-podcast) Marty Bent. Guests are operators, builders, and investors who are in the thing they're describing. - Where can I listen to the TFTC podcast? (https://www.tftc.io/podcast#faq-where-can-i-listen-to-the-tftc-podcast) YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. Subscribe links are on /podcast. - Does the TFTC podcast have transcripts? (https://www.tftc.io/podcast#faq-does-the-tftc-podcast-have-transcripts) Recent episodes do. Each new episode gets a written article and a full speaker-labelled transcript at `https://www.tftc.io/-transcript`, every exchange timestamped, with per-exchange anchors (e.g. #t-2389). A plain-text copy of any transcript is at `https://www.tftc.io//transcript.txt` (no markup, no navigation, the easiest form to parse). - [Bitcoin Basics](https://www.tftc.io/learn): explainers for newcomers. - [Guests](https://www.tftc.io/people): one reference page per recurring podcast guest at `https://www.tftc.io/people/` (e.g. /people/whitney-webb). Each has a standalone “who is this” paragraph, a key-facts list, the guest's positions grouped by theme with dated verbatim quotes from TFTC's own recordings (each quote links its episode), every TFTC episode they appear in, pieces they wrote for TFTC, notable appearances elsewhere, and question-headed answers. ProfilePage + FAQPage JSON-LD; anchors per theme (e.g. #pre-crime-surveillance-built-to-predict-not-to-record) and per section (#on-tftc, #positions, #writing, #elsewhere, #questions). ## Notes for machines - All tracker data is server-rendered HTML (real tables) — no client rendering required to read it. - Sitemaps: https://www.tftc.io/sitemap.xml and https://www.tftc.io/news-sitemap.xml - Attribution for reused flow data: "The Commoner Bitcoin ETF Tracker by TFTC (tftc.io/bitcoin-etf-flows)". For auction grades: "TFTC (tftc.io/treasury-auctions)".