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The Bitcoin Brief — 79 episodes

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1

The Absurdity Is Right in Front of Us

2

CLARITY Moves Ahead With a Civil-Only BRCA Compromise

3

Who Gets to Decide Whether You're Allowed to Build AI?

4

The World Needs More Stuff, Not More Financialization

5

The Growth Bet Has a Lot of Moving Parts

6

If GPT-6 Astra Is Legit, Governments Will Tell Us

7

Wall Street’s Bitcoin Gap, COLDCARD Coins Move, and Washington’s Venezuela Oil Bet

8

The Identity Verification Honeypot Has Been Cracked Open

9

Europe Broke Its Economy. Now It Wants Your Savings to Repair It.

10

Bitcoin Is Ringing the Fiscal Alarm

11

Implicit Yield Curve Control Is Here

12

Stop Taxing Inflation as a Capital Gain

13

America Is Throttling the Defenders Who Protect Bitcoin

14

The COLDCARD Attackers Left More Than a Blockchain Trail

15

Texas Just Put 474 Gigawatts of Data Center Requests on Trial

16

The COLDCARD Disaster Has Reached Nine Figures

17

The Fed Paused. The Bond Market Did Not.

18

Bitcoin's Liquidity Winter Is Not Over Yet

19

New York Is Building the Store and the List

20

Fedwire Shows What Bitcoin Is Actually Competing With

21

You Can't Have Capitalism When the Money Is Corrupted

22

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

23

Put America Back on the Henry Adams Curve

24

Hugging Face Was Breached by an Autonomous AI Agent Swarm

25

The AI Race Is About Sovereignty, Not Just Intelligence

26

AI Needs More Builders, Not More Moratoriums

27

Europe's Dystopian Surveillance Machine, DAC8, and Election Chain of Custody

28

Chat Control, Broken Money, and AI Project Finance

29

Housing Inflation, PJM Grid Stress, and Capital Wars

30

Bitcoin Title Fight, Euroclear's Frozen Assets, and the DSA's Communist Mask

31

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

32

Debasement Trade Tested, Strategy Capital Management, AI Operator Shakeout

33

CLARITY Act Under Siege, Bear Market Bottom Signal, Gold Below $4K, OpenAI's 9-Month Chip, Ark Wallets on Mainnet

34

Apple Threatens Sparrow Wallet, Central Banks Stack Gold at Record Pace, EU MiCA Crushes 75% of Crypto Firms

35

Sakana Fugu vs. Anthropic Export Ban, Bitcoin Miners' Golden Era, Howell's Dollar Thesis

36

Ward 250 Goes Critical, Private Credit Seizing, and Saylor's STRC Squeeze

37

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

38

BOJ Hikes to 31-Year High, 42 States Subpoena OpenAI, Hayes Funds Bitcoin Privacy

39

Belfast, UK Surveillance State, Milei's AI Framework, SpaceX Hyperscaler

40

Anthropic's FAA for AI, Cashu Proof of Reserves, Gold Overtakes Treasuries

41

Fable 5 Singularity Moment, Anthropic Nerfing, Bark Mainnet, Strive Math, Conviction Test

42

The Moral Case for Bitcoin, STH Record Losses, Fannie Mae BTC Mortgage, Anthropic $35B, Intel Photonics

43

Generational Entry, Iran USDT Toll, Blackstone Gates, Apple iMessage Agents

44

100 Million Humble Sat Stackers, SPLC Indictment, Private Equity Contagion, BOJ Rate Hike

45

Dark Output, Zcash Emergency Fork, 16 AI Headwinds, Red Waterfall Capitulation

46

Google Chips Break NVIDIA Monopoly, Lightning Infrastructure Advances, Post-Quantum Bitcoin Research

47

FPV Drones End Tank Era, Wall Street Contradictions, Open-Source AI Parity

48

The Energy Shock Is Not a Spike. It Is a Structural Repricing of the Global Economy.

49

Lightning + Ark Scaling Stack, Peak On-Chain Apathy, NYC Property Seizure Plan

50

Canadian Sidewalk Psych Holds, Silent Payments in Sparrow, Uber's AI Spending Problem

51

Iran's Bitcoin Maritime Insurance, AI Supply Chain Crisis, University System Collapse

52

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

53

CLARITY Act Loophole, Coatue AI CapEx, BofA Kills 2026 Rate Cuts

54

Hantavirus and Ivermectin, Big Pharma's SSRI Crisis, Iran Deal Framework, and the AI Energy Arms Race

55

Global Bond Rout, Goldman AI Paradox, Iran Deal Rumors

56

Tether Freezes $344M, CBDC Ban Is a Head Fake, FBI Director at Bitcoin 2026

57

Most Hated Rally in History, Strategy Buys $2.5B BTC, Hormuz Near Zero

58

BitMEX Quantum Canary, Tether at 97K BTC, OPNEXT NYC

59

Iran Talks Collapse, Oil Tops $105, CMBS Hits COVID Highs

60

Stablecoins Won't Save Public Blockchains, CPI Hits 3.3%, Carlyle Gates $7B Fund

61

Full Spectrum MoE, Roman Storm Ruling, and CRE Hits COVID Highs

62

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

63

Citrini's Hormuz Field Report, Iran's Toll Booth, Bitcoin Day Faucet

64

OpenAI Buys TBPN, Oil at 2022 Highs, FBI Bulk Data Buying

65

Quantum-Proof Signatures, 4% Inflation, and Germany Debasing Its Coins

66

Google Quantum AI Cuts ECDSA Attack to 1,200 Qubits, but the Engineering Gap Is Massive

67

BPI Brings Coinbase, River, and Block to Capitol Hill for Bitcoin Tax Reform

68

A Poisoned Security Scanner Backdoored the AI Stack

69

Private Credit Gates Slam Shut as Apollo and Ares Lock Exits on $10 Billion in Redemption Requests

70

Bitcoin Infrastructure Is Being Built at Wartime Speed

71

SDNY Seeks Retrial of Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm

72

The $3 Trillion Private Credit Crisis Nobody Is Talking About

73

Declassified Docs Link U.S. Bioweapons to Lyme Disease, Strike BLOC Goes Live, Robert Maxwell Destroyed Science

74

AI Models Choose Bitcoin as Their Preferred Money

75

Qatar Helium Crisis Threatens China's Chip Fabs

76

Operation Epic Fury Shakes Markets, Bitcoin Recovers in Hours

77

Tough Prosecutors Save Lives, But Not How You Think

78

Jane Street Lawsuit, UBS Private Credit Risk, AI Macro Doomsday

79

Agents of Chaos: AI Agents Go Rogue, Fed Split on AI, Korea Takes the AI Trade