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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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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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July 29 · 9 min
Bitcoin's Liquidity Winter Is Not Over Yet
Bitcoin's Liquidity Winter Is Not Over Yet - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: The AI Bubble Call Is Ignoring Hyperscalers' Hidden Pricing Power Lower Inflation Does Not Put the Grocery Bill Back The Housing Index Is Missing the Condo Stress Private Credit Is Sending a Bad Signal FROST Takes the Hot Key Out of the Ecash Mint DATA SNAPSHOT Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
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July 28 · 12 min
New York Is Building the Store and the List
New York Is Building the Store and the List - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: BIP-110's Fork Clock Is Now Visible Britain Is Learning That Capital Has Legs The Credit Market Just Put a Price on the AI Circle Strategy Sold MSTR, Bought Discounted STRC, and Bought No Bitcoin Silent Payments Are Moving Into Wallet and Library Code Bitcoin Is Sitting in the Waiting Room Nostr Turns Integrations Into Events DATA SNAPSHOT Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
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July 27 · 10 min
Fedwire Shows What Bitcoin Is Actually Competing With
Fedwire Shows What Bitcoin Is Actually Competing With - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: AI Has Become a Credit Story Fauci's Diary Is the Case Against Self-Policing Institutions Mining's Credit Wreckage Is Becoming AI's Power Inventory Private Credit Is Sending a Bad Signal AI Agents Are Starting to Eat the CUDA Moat The State Is Putting GrapheneOS's Duress Password on Trial DATA SNAPSHOT Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
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