5% on the 30-Year, $1.27T Interest Expense, and the Sovereign Debt Trap

Your daily bitcoin and macro intelligence briefing. AI-generated audio from the TFTC Bitcoin Brief newsletter, written and curated by Marty Bent. • US 30-year treasury clears 5% for the first time since 2007, Japan 20-year at 1997 highs • Federal interest expense hits $1.27T — took 73 years to 109x, then 6 years to double • 1970s inflation overlay shows 0.93 correlation with today's CPI trajectory • Banking lobby wants BSA surveillance extended to self-custody wallets • Lightning beats stablecoins for AI agent payments — the privacy gap most people miss • Bitcoiner recovers ~5 BTC via Claude after 3.5 trillion failed passwords • Mining hardware squeeze: new rigs overpriced, old ones underpowered • Tech giants laying off Americans while filing thousands of H-1B petitions Get the full written brief with all links, sources, and on-chain data — subscribe free at tftc.io/bitcoin-brief