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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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11:39

Implicit Yield Curve Control Is Here

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/08/19

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

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10:00

Stop Taxing Inflation as a Capital Gain

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/08/12

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:

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9:45

America Is Throttling the Defenders Who Protect Bitcoin

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/08/11

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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11:25

The COLDCARD Attackers Left More Than a Blockchain Trail

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/08/06

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

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10:18

Texas Just Put 474 Gigawatts of Data Center Requests...

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/08/05

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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10:44

The COLDCARD Disaster Has Reached Nine Figures

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/08/04

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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11:34

The Fed Paused. The Bond Market Did Not.

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/07/30

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:

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9:49

Bitcoin's Liquidity Winter Is Not Over Yet

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/07/29

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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12:42

New York Is Building the Store and the List

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/07/28

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:

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10:35

Fedwire Shows What Bitcoin Is Actually Competing With

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/07/27

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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11:35

You Can't Have Capitalism When the Money Is Corrupted

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/07/23

You Can't Have Capitalism When the Money Is Corrupted - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter.Stories covered: The 10x AI Headline Needs a Current Baseline AI Is Compressing the Patch Window to Zero Sovereign AI Is Moving From Chat to Work Bitcoin's Moat Is Boring Work A Dark Pool Built From Freedom-Tech Primitives Give the Agent a Wallet, Not a Corporate Card DATA SNAPSHOT Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

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10:05

AI Just Got 10x More Efficient. It Will Need More Power.

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/07/22

AI Just Got 10x More Efficient. It Will Need More Power. - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: America May Be Promising the Same Natural Gas Molecule Three Times Culture Is an AI Infrastructure Constraint Gigatoken Speeds Up AI's Front Door The ETF Bid Has Flipped, Not Roared Buzz Gives AI Agents a Seat at the Table bitcoin Does Not Care Whether the Buyer Is Human or Machine DATA SNAPSHOT Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

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10:27

Put America Back on the Henry Adams Curve

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/07/21

Put America Back on the Henry Adams Curve - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: Bitcoin's Bottom Is Starting to Look More Constructive Twenty One Is No Longer Trying to Buy Strike Bitcoin's Data Debate Moves From Philosophy to Operations Wall Street Sees Scarcity Under Everything Motherhood Lost Status. Georgia Showed Status Can Be Restored. Watch: Bitcoin Is the Peaceful Revolution with Average Gary Bitcoin Is Starting to Prove Its Own Consensus Rules DATA

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11:06

Hugging Face Was Breached by an Autonomous AI Agent...

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/07/20

Hugging Face Was Breached by an Autonomous AI Agent Swarm - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: Chamath Is Wrong About Bitcoin's Structural Problems Foundry Puts BIP-110 to a Hashrate-Weighted Miner Vote The Degree Is Expensive. The Skills Are Missing. China Is Adding Liquidity. Howell Still Favors Gold First. Moonshot Is Competing on Intelligence per Unit of Compute Ashigaru Repairs a Broken Privacy-Wallet Mixing Workflow DATA SNAPSHOT Read the full written brief:

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10:57

The AI Race Is About Sovereignty, Not Just Intelligence

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/07/16

The AI Race Is About Sovereignty, Not Just Intelligence - Audio edition of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter. Stories covered: Open Source Is Not Costless America Is Testing Bitcoin While China-Aligned Groups Fight AI Infrastructure The Young Are Rich in Televisions and Poor in Life Gen Z Is Turning Against Capitalism The AI Boom May Be Absorbing Financial-Market Liquidity Fund the Maintainers Read the full written brief: https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

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9:24

AI Needs More Builders, Not More Moratoriums

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/07/15

Your daily bitcoin and macro intelligence briefing. AI-generated audio from the TFTC Bitcoin Brief newsletter, written and curated by Marty Bent. • Nebius introduced an infrastructure partnership model that lets qualified operators bring capital, powered land, servers, and local execution while Nebius supplies data-center design, cloud software, sales, and customer demand. • New York directed regulators to hold incomplete discretionary permit applications for new or expanded data centers capable

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8:22

Europe's Dystopian Surveillance Machine, DAC8, and...

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/07/09

Your daily bitcoin and macro intelligence briefing. AI-generated audio from the TFTC Bitcoin Brief newsletter, written and curated by Marty Bent. • Europe is completely dystopian now: voting MEPs opposed Chat Control 314 to 276, but the surveillance regime moved forward because rejection needed 361 votes. • DAC8 and CARF turn bitcoin ownership into a reporting surface by linking identity, tax residence, transaction categories, values, dates, and transfers to tax authorities. • Bull Bitcoin's

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8:27

Chat Control, Broken Money, and AI Project Finance

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/07/08

Your daily bitcoin and macro intelligence briefing. AI-generated audio from the TFTC Bitcoin Brief newsletter, written and curated by Marty Bent. • Brussels is trying to revive Chat Control after prior defeats by using urgent procedure mechanics that make private-message scanning easier to pass. • Broken money is turning inflation pain into class-war politics, and socialist confiscation schemes make the monetary problem worse by centralizing credit and control. • SemiAnalysis argues Anthropic could

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7:56

Housing Inflation, PJM Grid Stress, and Capital Wars

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/07/06

Your daily bitcoin and macro intelligence briefing. AI-generated audio from the TFTC Bitcoin Brief newsletter, written and curated by Marty Bent. • Housing inflation is policy all the way down: open-border policy added an artificial demand shock on top of money printing, rate suppression, zoning restrictions, and constrained housing supply. • Philadelphia Fed research from Albert Saiz found immigration inflows equal to 1% of city population were associated with roughly 1% higher rents and housing

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9:05

Bitcoin Title Fight, Euroclear's Frozen Assets, and...

The Bitcoin Brief ·

2026/07/03

Your daily bitcoin and macro intelligence briefing. AI-generated audio from the TFTC Bitcoin Brief newsletter, written and curated by Marty Bent. • A New York abandoned-property lawsuit is trying to wrap legal claims around 39,069 dormant bitcoin wallets, but the first real respondent argues a bitcoin address is not a legal person. • The deeper risk is not a court moving coins without private keys. It is a legal cloud that follows coins into exchanges, banks, custodians, and compliance

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