Age Verification Gates, Japan's Debt Trap, and AI Privacy at the Edge

Your daily bitcoin and macro intelligence briefing. AI-generated audio from the TFTC Bitcoin Brief newsletter, written and curated by Marty Bent. • The KIDS Act passed the House 267-117 and creates pressure toward age verification gates under the banner of protecting kids. • Parents should parent. Government should stay out of building identity rails for the next version of the internet. • Japan's BOJ hiked to 1% while keeping a JGB backstop in place, showing the sovereign debt trap in real time. • Alex Waltz's forensic history of bitcoin's earliest blocks makes the origin story more fragile, more human, and more impressive. • Bitcoin Core v31.1rc1 fixes a privatebroadcast IP address leak, another boring but important privacy hardening step. • FERC is pushing regional grid operators to rethink large-load interconnection as AI data centers become a power-grid story. • Rampart pushes AI privacy to the edge by redacting personal information before prompts leave the browser. • EverOS shows why agent memory should be local, readable, editable, portable, and owned by the operator. Get the full written brief with all links, sources, and on-chain data — subscribe free at tftc.io/bitcoin-brief