Who controls your money, your data, and your compute, as it breaks. Bitcoin, markets, AI, and energy.
544 posts
El Salvador's National Bitcoin Office has continued announcing Bitcoin purchases since signing a $1.4 billion IMF deal that required the public sector to confine Bitcoin-related ac…
Sunrun, Tesla, and Renew Home announced a framework to aggregate more than 16 GW of home batteries and smart thermostats into a virtual power plant targeting AI data center demand.…
Alan Greenspan died June 22, 2026 at age 100. He authored 'Gold and Economic Freedom' in 1966. He then ran the Fed for 19 years and built the debt machine Satoshi was responding to…
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pledged reconstruction support for Iran on June 22, signaling Beijing intends to secure long-term oil access in exchange. Every infrastructure cont…
Iran's IRGC struck a cargo ship near Oman on June 25, pausing the UN's strait evacuation plan and breaking a week-old ceasefire. OFAC has designated the IRGC's toll-collecting enti…
The BEA's final Q1 2026 GDP estimate shows AI data center equipment and software investment carried roughly 74% of all U.S. economic growth in the first quarter, while consumer spe…
EFF's FOIA investigation, published June 25, finds that Flock Safety's ALPR systems, deployed in more than 5,000 communities, include a drop-down menu letting local police subscrib…
DMND mining pool and GoMining mined block 955,318 on June 25, using Stratum V2's Job Declaration feature for the first known time in a live production environment, shifting transac…
Bitcoin's one-week options skew is flashing a ~24-point put premium, a panic-level read last seen near an interim bottom earlier this year. The BEA releases May PCE at 8:30 a.m. ED…
TRM Labs traced $3.84 billion from 60+ sanctioned Iranian entities through CoinEx since 2019, making it Iran's primary international crypto exit ramp by 2024. OFAC's June 2 sanctio…
India is on track to import a record 2.35 million bpd of Russian crude in June 2026, with Russia accounting for 53.5% of all Indian oil imports. The U.S. sanctions waiver on Russia…
Nouriel Roubini has co-authored a whitepaper for USAFi, a tokenized ERC-20 security he frames as the first 'Technodollar' instrument. The pivot confirms elite macro consensus has a…
The Federal Reserve's proposed 'payment account' would let legally eligible fintechs settle directly through the Fed. Congress is now debating the access terms, the moral hazard, a…
Sen. Steve Daines says the Senate Finance Committee has a crypto tax framework ready and could hold a markup by fall 2026, the clearest timeline signal yet from the upper chamber's…
A Bitcoin Policy Institute fellow projects sovereign nations will dominate Bitcoin mining by 2036 by monetizing stranded power. The Bhutan data already challenges that thesis.
Arthur Hayes argues the $1.5 trillion AI capex debt wave absorbed the entire U.S. M2 expansion since November 2022, explaining Bitcoin's underperformance. His thesis: when the bubb…
Trump cancelled the signing ceremony for the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which includes a four-year ban on a Federal Reserve CBDC, demanding Congress pass the SAVE America Ac…
The CLARITY Act is one Senate floor vote from becoming law. Buried in its conforming amendments is a provision that could force corporate Bitcoin treasury companies into CFTC commo…
CME Group filed a federal complaint against the CFTC on June 18, arguing that Bitcoin perpetual futures are legally swaps under Dodd-Frank and that Chair Michael Selig's one-day ap…
Bitcoin holders who acquired coins more than five years ago have cut their smoothed selling pace to 962 BTC, a 19-month low, even as spot price sits almost exactly at their maximum…
The Commoner
Independent writing by Marty Bent at TFTC since 2017. Money, markets, AI, energy and privacy, delivered free to your inbox.
Free, every weekday. Unsubscribe anytime using the link in each newsletter. By subscribing you agree to our Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. Read recent issues.