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EPISODE · Jun 17, 2026 · 8 MIN

UK Rape Gang Inquiry, Warsh's First FOMC, Embodied AI Race, China's Open-Source Frontier Model, Ark in Kenya

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Your daily bitcoin and macro intelligence briefing. AI-generated audio from the TFTC Bitcoin Brief newsletter, written and curated by Marty Bent. • UK Rape Gang Inquiry: 250,000 victims, 149 districts, 40% of the country. Institutions that knew and covered it up. Starmer silent. • Kevin Warsh chairs his first FOMC. Rate hold expected. Watch the dot plot and the end of forward guidance. • Alibaba ships three robot foundation models + Genesis AI launches Eno. The AI race jumped from screens to the physical world. • China's Zhipu AI drops GLM-5.2: frontier model, MIT license, no NVIDIA, 1M context. Where is the American open-source answer? • Ark lands in Kenya. VTXOs to Lightning to M-Pesa. Self-custody without channels, working in a real economy. • LTH-SOPR at 0.8789. 20% of supply in the $60K-$70K range. The conviction test. Get the full written brief with all links, sources, and on-chain data at tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

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