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The KIDS Act would push the internet toward age verification gates under the banner of protecting kids. Parents should parent. Government should stay out of building identity rails…

Michael Howell says bitcoin weakness reflects a slowing liquidity impulse, not a dead debasement thesis. Plus Jay Patel, Strategy capital management, and Jordi Visser on the AI sha…

OpenAI is reportedly limiting GPT-5.6 access at the US government’s request. Marty argues AI safety has become regulatory moat-building as open-weight models catch up and crush pri…

Bitcoin broke below $59k, stress-testing leverage around the asset while the network keeps clearing blocks. Plus DMND's first known Stratum V2 block, AI compute bottlenecks, miners…

Catholic leaders and four major law enforcement associations oppose the CLARITY Act's BRCA provision. The bill that would have kept Samourai's developers free needs a floor vote by…

Apple is threatening to terminate Craig Raw's developer account by June 30, which would end all new Sparrow Wallet installs on macOS. Meanwhile, central banks are accumulating gold…

Sakana AI's Fugu Ultra claims frontier parity the same week the U.S. forced Anthropic offline. Bitcoin miners pivot to AI as hashrate drops. Howell says Warsh will let markets tigh…

Valar Atomics' Ward 250 achieves criticality in 9 months from empty site. Plus private credit seizing, Saylor's STRC problem, and yen carry trade risk.

Midjourney, bootstrapped to $200M with zero investors, unveiled a full-body ultrasonic CT scanner: no radiation, no MRI, 60x faster. Plus Warsh dot plot results, Iran peace deal, a…

A 219-page independent inquiry funded by 20,000 public donations estimates 250,000 victims across 40% of the UK. Grooming gangs since the 1950s. Institutional cover-up by police, s…

The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1%, the highest since 1995. Every previous hike crashed Bitcoin 18-28%. Today BTC holds $66K. BlackRock launches BITA income ETF. Warsh chairs fir…

The UK just banned under-16s from Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X. Bluesky is reportedly exempt. The surveillance infrastructure this requires is the real sto…

A Sudanese man attempted a beheading in Belfast. The city erupted. The UK government's response: threaten the angry, blame the platform, and fast-track device surveillance. Signal…

Anthropic's CEO calls for mandatory government testing of AI models and power to block deployments. Released the same day his company closed a $35 billion credit deal. Meanwhile, C…

Anthropic's Fable 5 delivers superhuman coding performance while secretly sabotaging AI research tasks. Two stories that show why centralized intelligence control threatens innovat…


Every Bitcoin bear market cycle low tells the same story: the floor keeps rising. In 2015: $152. In 2019: $3,200. In 2022: $15,500. Today: panic at $60,000. Each cycle's devastatin…

Zcash discovered an undetectable infinite inflation bug in their Orchard privacy pool. Three people froze billions in user funds via quiet soft fork coordination with mining pools.…

Many people have lost sight of why Bitcoin matters. We need 100 million humble sat stackers - individuals saving 0-00 per paycheck in bitcoin, building real, sustainable demand thr…

SemiAnalysis coined 'Dark Output': real AI economic value that GDP cannot see. $1.5T in exposed labor. Junior workers vanishing from data while wages rise. The incoming Fed Chair a…
