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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, macro, AI, and freedom tech. The content is written and curated by Marty and his AI assistant, then converted to audio using voice cloning technology. No fluff, no filler. Just signal. Subscribe to the full written Brief at tftc.io/bitcoin-brief.

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Friday · 8 min
Who Benefits From You Being Angry?
This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice. Who Benefits From You Being Angry? - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: The Commoner Another refinery outage when diesel is already expensive A utility makes the case for more customers Washington targets the businesses around bitcoin Japan raises the cost of yen funding Mistral responds to the code-sale claim Check the download before you install Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
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Thursday · 8 min
Let's Check Our Priors
This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice. Let's Check Our Priors - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: Flock needs to show its work Spending the bitcoin was the easy part Crusoe is putting numbers behind the buildout Update your Alby extension The rare earth that has me paying attention Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
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Wednesday · 8 min
Time Is a Flat Circle
This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice. Time Is a Flat Circle - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: The Commoner My view on bitcoin after the CLARITY vote More competition for the frontier AI companies Inside the bitcoin reserve proposal Import prices are still going up Slower growth, higher costs Choose what you read Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
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Tuesday · 7 min
The Absurdity Is Right in Front of Us
This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice. The Absurdity Is Right in Front of Us - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: The Commoner Has bitcoin mining reached peak power demand? Record diesel prices squeeze operating costs EPA finalizes a partial power-plant rollback Bolt offers more building capacity in exchange for training data Bitcoin Well adds an AnchorWatch referral path Keep sensitive AI work local Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
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September 14 · 8 min
CLARITY Moves Ahead With a Civil-Only BRCA Compromise
This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice. CLARITY Moves Ahead With a Civil-Only BRCA Compromise - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: The AI slowdown campaign goes geopolitical Latham is buying itself AI options Howell sees a long-term hedge and a short-term warning Inflation is still taking its cut Revolut handed customer records to an impostor Electrum users: check your Lightning backups Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
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September 11 · 8 min
Who Gets to Decide Whether You're Allowed to Build AI?
This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice. Who Gets to Decide Whether You're Allowed to Build AI? - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: Prepare for the bull market before it gets to your head Buying generators is not delivering power AI makes surveillance cheaper California needs to explain its home-health oversight A bitcoin playbook for commercial real estate owners Europe raises rates into an energy shock Saudi Arabia's oil bypass has its own chokepoint Stop making your phone number the way strangers find you Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
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September 10 · 8 min
The World Needs More Stuff, Not More Financialization
This audio edition uses an AI-generated version of Marty Bent's voice. The World Needs More Stuff, Not More Financialization - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: Build the data centers. Let the towns share the upside. A legitimate sender can still deliver a seed-stealing email Watch what enterprises spend, without calling the cycle on one month Cipher moves through the process. Its power remains conditional. Follow the funding before handing AI incumbents a regulatory moat Stakwork wants your company to own its intelligence Sparrow tightens hardware-wallet checks Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
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September 8 · 8 min
The Growth Bet Has a Lot of Moving Parts
The Growth Bet Has a Lot of Moving Parts - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: Liquid Gets 3,400 BTC Back, but the Network Is Still Paused Nick Shirley Challenges California's Immigration-Provider Privacy Law Google's TPU Gets an External Inference Scorecard IREN's 2GW Sweetwater Hub Clears a Conditional Hurdle BitcoinPIR Adds a Cashu-Paid Cashier for Private Queries ETF FLOW CHECK Ride The Lightning v0.15.12-beta Closes an Unauthenticated Rebalance Route DATA SNAPSHOT Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
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September 4 · 9 min
If GPT-6 Astra Is Legit, Governments Will Tell Us
If GPT-6 Astra Is Legit, Governments Will Tell Us - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: Debt-Heavy Governments Want the Banks to Finance Their Priorities America's Foreign-Born Population Estimate Is Falling Bitcoin Is Knocking on $82,500 Again Empire Needs a Story Before It Can Take Your Stuff Zaprite Is Fixing the Awkward Part of Paying Friends in Bitcoin ETF FLOW CHECK Nunchuk Android Added BitBox and Krux Support DATA SNAPSHOT Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
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September 3 · 8 min
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. Get the full written brief with all links, sources, and on-chain data. Subscribe free at tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
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September 2 · 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 Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
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September 1 · 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
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August 21 · 10 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
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August 19 · 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
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August 12 · 10 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
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August 11 · 9 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
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August 6 · 11 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
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August 5 · 10 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
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August 4 · 10 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
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July 30 · 11 min
The Fed Paused. The Bond Market Did Not.
The Fed Paused. The Bond Market Did Not. - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: Kentucky Is Choosing Between Building Power and Banning Demand A Million Applications and a Border Government Cannot Control Washington Is Still Trying to Turn Code Into a Financial Institution Bitcoin Developers Want to Make Stale Blocks Observable The Hormuz Toll Booth Accepts Bitcoin The Bitcoin Moved Owners, Not UTXOs DATA SNAPSHOT Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
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