Your daily bitcoin and macro intelligence briefing. AI-generated audio from the TFTC Bitcoin Brief newsletter, written and curated by Marty Bent.

• Fable 5 delivered a 1,770% speedup and found a bug its creator couldn't. Then Anthropic admitted they deliberately crippled it on frontier AI research. Silently.

• Sarah Guo's "The Untrainable": the valuable work is illegible by construction. Intelligence is not the bottleneck.

• Bark launches on Bitcoin mainnet. Self-custodial payments, no channels, no liquidity headaches.

• Parker Lewis: Strive buyers paid 86% premium to NAV. Could have just bought bitcoin.

• DOJ declares EEOC disparate-impact guidelines unconstitutional

• Crusoe pauses 1.8 GW datacenter. Customer pulled back.

• James Check: "Conviction Test." Deepest oversold RSI since March 2020. It's just us now.

• DeepSeek V4: 100x inference improvement in 26 days on AMD

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