H-1B Ghost Offices Exposed, Bear Market Bottoming, UK Welfare Crisis

Your daily bitcoin and macro intelligence briefing. AI-generated audio from the TFTC Bitcoin Brief newsletter, written and curated by Marty Bent. • Tyler Oliveira's viral documentary exposes empty ghost offices in Frisco, TX used to game H-1B visa sponsorships, 750K views in 24 hours • American IT workers testifying at city council: displaced by cheaper foreign labor funneled through visa mills • Similar exploitation patterns documented nationwide: Somalian, Hasidic, and Russian communities gaming benefits systems • James Check's CheckOnChain analysis: 22.2% of Realized Cap in bottom formation range, approaching the ~25% bear market floor threshold • UK welfare spending (£333B) exceeds income tax revenue (£331B) for the first time in history • China bans Jack Dorsey's Bitchat from App Store, the mesh-network messaging app used in protests across five countries • Craig Raw launches Frigate: silent payments (BIP352) now practical for mobile at 40M ops/sec • Start9 ships StartOS v0.4.0: complete rewrite of the sovereign computing OS • NVK's llm-wiki v0.0.10: open-source tool that turns AI chats into permanent knowledge wikis • Fed sitting on $844B unrealized losses as JPMorgan and BofA report Q1 earnings this week Get the full written brief with all links, sources, and on-chain data at tftc.io/bitcoin-brief