TFTC
How Bitcoin and AI are becoming leverage for builders and independent thinkers.
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OpenAI raised its projected infrastructure spend to $750B through 2030, up from $600B, while posting a $38.5B loss on $13B in revenue. The commitment-to-revenue gap is 57:1. Its ow…
Block launched Buzz on July 21, a free Apache 2.0 workspace built on Nostr where human employees and AI agents share the same cryptographic identity layer, replacing Slack and GitH…
BIP-110, the proposed temporary Bitcoin data-restriction softfork, is approaching a mandatory miner-signaling window projected around August 7 with less than 1% of hashrate behind…
Galaxy Digital launched a Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative committing up to $5 million in developer grants, research, and an advisory council to close the gap between fast-movi…
Power companies in five states are using or threatening eminent domain to seize private land for high-voltage transmission lines that primarily serve AI data centers. The constitut…
Z.AI has completed a 1-gigawatt AI data center running exclusively on Chinese-made chips, per Bloomberg. The facility is a direct product of U.S. export controls, and a stress test…
HumansFirst organized 142 protests across 42 states on July 18, 2026, the first nationally coordinated day of action against AI data center construction. Data Center Watch puts cum…
Leonidas announced DOG Mode on July 17: an alternative Bitcoin client that lifts relay transaction size to 3.9 million weight units and drops the dust limit to 1 satoshi, without t…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that scores near Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 at roughly half the inference cost per task. Global chip stocks are…
Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor published a detailed takedown of BIP-110 on July 18, arguing the 'Reduced Data Temporary Softfork' is more dangerous than the Ordinals sp…
The DOE's Office of Energy Dominance Financing closed a $3.26B loan to AEP Texas on July 8, explicitly targeting transmission capacity for AI data centers, advanced manufacturing,…
Cloudflare opened a waitlist for its Monetization Gateway on July 1, letting any site charge AI agents per request via x402. The rail shipping today is USDC on Coinbase's Base. Lig…
The Linux Foundation's x402 Foundation declared operational on July 14, 2026, with 40 members including Visa, Mastercard, Google, Stripe, and AWS. The protocol is genuinely chain-a…
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati released Inkling on July 15, 2026: a 975 billion parameter open-weights model under Apache 2.0, the largest from a Western lab, positioned as customiz…
Florida regulators let Duke Energy's AI data center rate petition survive dismissal 4-1, but Commissioner Gary Clark told the utility it is on 'real shaky ground.' The decisive evi…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order July 14, 2026, imposing the nation's first statewide one-year moratorium on new hyperscale AI data centers requiring 50 MW or m…
Block turned its dollar wallet into a Lightning payment rail. The businesses cashing in first are the ones Visa and Mastercard treat as second-class.
BIP-110, the proposal to temporarily restrict arbitrary data on Bitcoin, enters its mandatory signaling window around August 7 with zero miner support in the current period and cum…
The Federal Reserve named a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen to co-lead its new Productivity and Jobs task force on July 9, 2026, alongside a Stanford economist on leave at Anthropic…
TeraWulf plans to raise $3.5 billion in leveraged loans and high-yield bonds to finance Anthropic's 401 MW Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, locking up exactly the kin…
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