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The Bitcoin Brief episodes

  • Britain Has Not Earned This Trust

    This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice.

    Britain Has Not Earned This Trust - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

    Stories covered:

    • The Commoner
    • A coding agent that can pay its own inference bill
    • Thirty-year Treasury debt clears at 5.441%
    • PJM’s monitor wants new data centers to bring new generation
    • German banks are building a shared fraud-warning network
    • Barr’s AI question comes down to who gets to use it
    • ⛏️ 10+ Off-Grid Sites, One Firmware
    • Aperture handles the seller side of paid inference
    • We're taking three businesses
    • Plug your agent into TFTC

      • Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

      9 min
    • Fear Malware

      This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice.

      Fear Malware - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

      Stories covered:

      • The Commoner
      • Simple Mining: The Purest AI Trade
      • That chart is not your health insurance bill
      • A Bitcoin Core bug, disclosed after the fix
      • Richter: retirement fund draws down another $220 billion
      • Burchett says leadership blocked his stock-trading push
      • Less memory to run the model yourself
      • ⛏️ 10+ Off-Grid Sites, One Firmware
      • Mostro makes peer-to-peer trades easier to follow
      • We're taking three businesses
      • Plug your agent into TFTC

        • Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

        9 min
      • More Expensive by the Month

        This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice.

        More Expensive by the Month - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

        Stories covered:

        • The Commoner
        • Simple Mining: The Purest AI Trade
        • Texas elects an electricity-price fixer
        • Your phone is a terrible place to take custody shortcuts
        • $41 trillion before Christmas?
        • Anthropic has a permission slip for that
        • Massie wants a House vote on Hegseth
        • ⛏️ 10+ Off-Grid Sites, One Firmware
        • Update uBlock Origin from its official listing
        • We're taking three businesses
        • Plug your agent into TFTC

          • Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

          8 min
        • The Recovery Trump Squandered

          This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice.

          The Recovery Trump Squandered - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

          Stories covered:

          • The Commoner
          • ⛏️ 10+ Off-Grid Sites, One Firmware
          • Cory Fields wants quantum thieves to risk their own bitcoin
          • FinCEN backs off $250 transfers while targeting MEXC
          • LNbits operators still need verified restart instructions
          • Bitcoin ETFs lost $1.28 billion last week
          • An agent can remember the wrong thing forever
          • Simple Mining: The Purest AI Trade
          • Try rbitcoin on a test network
          • We're taking three businesses
          • Plug your agent into TFTC

            • Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

            9 min
          • Black Monday Never Showed Up

            This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice.

            Black Monday Never Showed Up - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

            Stories covered:

            • The Commoner
            • OpenCode breach: your API key is a bearer instrument
            • Plug your agent into TFTC, no key required
            • Claude solves the NIST curve mystery, and it was timestamps
            • MSCI now decides whether a bitcoin company is a real company
            • Lopp's wrench attack archive passes 700 after an AI-assisted sweep
            • 📚 The Braiins Bitcoin Library Is Free
            • Bisq 2 ships a required security update

              • Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

              10 min
            • AI Just Made Your Bank's Database Cheaper to Rob

              This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice.

              AI Just Made Your Bank's Database Cheaper to Rob - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

              Stories covered:

              • The Commoner
              • Wells Fargo's bank shrank its workforce and paid out more than it earned
              • Feeling sidelined? Read James Check
              • Government-linked bitcoin is moving. That doesn't prove a reserve sale
              • DOE to PJM: data centers pay their own way
              • Towns are saying no to plate readers
              • BTCPay Server limits public access to old receipts

                • Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

                10 min
              • Don't Panic, and Don't Reuse Addresses

                This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice.

                Don't Panic, and Don't Reuse Addresses - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

                Stories covered:

                • The Commoner
                • Iraq made dollars 15% more expensive overnight
                • The 10-year auction cleared at its highest yield since 2000
                • Russia lets bitcoin in through a narrow door
                • Core Lightning node runners: upgrade now
                • Five counties hit pause on data centers in two days
                • Android users can now check BlueWallet's build

                  • Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

                  11 min
                • Four Decades and $35 Billion vs. a Week-Old Repo

                  This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice.

                  Four Decades and $35 Billion vs. a Week-Old Repo - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

                  Stories covered:

                  • The Commoner
                  • Spend stablecoins, save in bitcoin
                  • Nobody cares, and that's bullish
                  • Taunton says a cloned voice sent a SWAT team to his house
                  • Google is paying for more nuclear
                  • Fuel costs are showing up everywhere
                  • Alby Hub users: update before you migrate

                    • Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

                    13 min
                  • Download bitchat Before You Need It

                    This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice.

                    Download bitchat Before You Need It - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

                    Stories covered:

                    • The Commoner
                    • The 10-year is at a level we haven't seen since 2002
                    • A task force won't protect open models for us
                    • These Hormuz attacks look desperate
                    • DarkHorse is paying for Hopkinsville's new substation
                    • The CFTC starts writing crypto market rules
                    • Rome debased its way down
                    • Bring your own hardware to Nunchuk inheritance

                      • Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

                      10 min
                    • Trump Is Telling You to Own Bitcoin

                      This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice.

                      Trump Is Telling You to Own Bitcoin - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

                      Stories covered:

                      • The Commoner
                      • Good riddance to these surveillance proposals
                      • Apple, let people use their computers
                      • Your electricity bill would like a word
                      • Turns out Europe still needs refineries
                      • BlackRock did the heavy lifting
                      • A rough time to be looking for work
                      • Latin America is moving right
                      • LDK operators: check the security update

                        • Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

                        9 min

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                      Your daily bitcoin and macro intelligence briefing, powered by AI. Every morning, an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice delivers the key stories from the TFTC Bitcoin Brief — bitcoin,…