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The Bitcoin Brief episodes

  • Wall Street’s Bitcoin Gap, COLDCARD Coins Move, and Washington’s Venezuela Oil Bet

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

    • River estimates advisers have allocated only 0.008% of client portfolios to bitcoin, despite growing institutional acceptance.

    • One of the 293 canonical COLDCARD Wave 3 vaults moved approximately 20.5 bitcoin, while 187.23 bitcoin remained in 292 unmoved vaults at Galaxy’s cutoff.

    • Washington secured significant leverage over new Venezuelan oil projects, but rebuilding production at scale will take years.

    • Virginia convicted Karyann Parkinson after her five-year-old safely walked half a mile through their gated community.

    • Data-center host communities should negotiate durable tax revenue, infrastructure commitments, local training, and protection from shifted costs.

    • Vinteum’s São Paulo mining program showed that decentralization requires expertise across pools, Stratum V2, Bitcoin Core, firmware, boards, and ASIC chips.

    • U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded approximately $101.1 million in net inflows on September 2 after $236.5 million in outflows the previous day.

    • AQUA Wallet 0.5.3 can switch Lightning providers without requiring another app-store update.

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    9 min
  • The Identity Verification Honeypot Has Been Cracked Open

    The Identity Verification Honeypot Has Been Cracked Open - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

    Stories covered:

    • A Court Drew a Line Around Government Retaliation for AI Guardrails
    • The bitcoin-mining-to-AI Pivot Keeps Accelerating
    • The G20 Wants Innovation Inside the FATF Perimeter
    • South Korea Is Treating AI Capacity Like National Infrastructure
    • Global Liquidity Is High, but the Impulse Is Fading
    • Tor Browser Ships an Important Security Update
    • DATA SNAPSHOT

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      10 min
    • Europe Broke Its Economy. Now It Wants Your Savings to Repair It.

      Europe Broke Its Economy. Now It Wants Your Savings to Repair It. - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

      Stories covered:

      • OCEAN and Luke Dashjr Split Over Different Visions for Bitcoin Mining
      • The Wealth the Metrics Cannot See
      • Amber Lets Users Pre-Approve Narrow Signing Permissions
      • August Spot Bitcoin ETF Inflows Finished at $3.52 Billion
      • ZEUS Hardened the Payment Boundary in v13.2.1-rc1
      • Nostr Software Is Starting to Ship Through Nostr
      • DATA SNAPSHOT

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

        11 min
      • Bitcoin Is Ringing the Fiscal Alarm

        Bitcoin Is Ringing the Fiscal Alarm - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

        Stories covered:

        • ARMA Would Make the Government Hold Its Bitcoin for 20 Years
        • Bull Bitcoin Rebuilt Its Swap Path and Made Its Unsigned APK Reproducible
        • Existing Hardware Wallets Can Produce Post-Quantum Signatures
        • ERCOT Is Building a Conditional Bridge for 8.8 Gigawatts of Large Loads
        • A Bitcoin Mining ETF Is Becoming a Digital Power ETF
        • RaspiBolt v4 Teaches You How Your Node Actually Works
        • DATA SNAPSHOT

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

          11 min
        • Implicit Yield Curve Control Is Here

          Implicit Yield Curve Control Is Here - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

          Stories covered:

          • Morens Admitted a Federal Records-Concealment Conspiracy
          • Faster AI Agents Are Coming With a Much Bigger Power Plug
          • A Filing Review Maps $1.45 Billion of Dodgers TV Debt Across Five Insurers
          • Japan Cannot Hike Its Way Out of Bad Fiscal Math
          • Bitcoin Core's Static Linux Builds Are Finally Ready for Testing
          • Wavelength Gives Apps Self-Custodial Bitcoin Without a Node
          • DATA SNAPSHOT

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

            12 min
          • Stop Taxing Inflation as a Capital Gain

            Stop Taxing Inflation as a Capital Gain - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

            Stories covered:

            • Anthropic's Invisible Watermark Has a Due-Process Problem
            • The Screenshots Prove Less Than the Juxtaposition Implies
            • Credit Is Growing. So Are the Stress-Management Tools.
            • FinCEN Is Deleting Identifiable Exempt CTA Data
            • Washington Reopens the Door to Digital-Asset Banks
            • Minibits Changed the Engine Without Losing the Ecash
            • DATA SNAPSHOT

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

              10 min
            • America Is Throttling the Defenders Who Protect Bitcoin

              America Is Throttling the Defenders Who Protect Bitcoin - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

              Stories covered:

              • NVIDIA Is Building a Credit Market Backed by AI Compute
              • LNp2pBot Was Exhausted by Attackers
              • Japan Bought Time, Not a Stronger Yen
              • Fauci's Private Pregnancy Concern Belongs in the Public Record
              • Maple Is Turning the Private AI Agent Into a Real Workspace
              • BTCPay Is Paying the Defenders
              • DATA SNAPSHOT

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

                10 min
              • The COLDCARD Attackers Left More Than a Blockchain Trail

                The COLDCARD Attackers Left More Than a Blockchain Trail - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

                Stories covered:

                • BIP-110 Is Entering Mandatory Signaling With Almost No Miner Support
                • Wavelength Packages Ark, Lightning and Bitcoin Into One Self-Custodial SDK
                • Bitcoin Is Currently the Seventh-Largest Base Money in Mežinskis's Ranking
                • The BLADE Act Targets Industrialized Theft of AI Capabilities
                • Cook Says Inflation Risk Now Outweighs Labor Risk
                • Code RED Turns Open Models Into Bitcoin's Defensive Arsenal
                • DATA SNAPSHOT

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

                  12 min
                • Texas Just Put 474 Gigawatts of Data Center Requests on Trial

                  Texas Just Put 474 Gigawatts of Data Center Requests on Trial

                  Stories covered:

                  • A Fake Wasabi App Weaponized the COLDCARD Panic
                  • Alex Thorn Maps the Waves and the Recovery Path
                  • Capital Was Already Winning Before AI Hit Scale
                  • The Liquidity Tailwind Is Getting Thinner
                  • The Memory Shortage Is Already Redesigning the Machine
                  • Bitcoin's Red Team Needs More Than More Agents
                  • DATA SNAPSHOT

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

                    11 min
                  • The COLDCARD Disaster Has Reached Nine Figures

                    The COLDCARD Disaster Has Reached Nine Figures - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.

                    Stories covered:

                    • AI Has Collapsed Bitcoin's Patch Window
                    • Boltz Paused Swaps Before the Asymmetry Got Worse
                    • Treasury Needs More Cash Than J.P. Morgan Expected
                    • The AI Backlog Is Growing Faster Than the Capex
                    • Jessica Rose Maps the Gates-Fauci Pandemic Network
                    • MARA Opened a Private Lane Around the Sweepers
                    • DATA SNAPSHOT

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

                      11 min

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