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Protect Kids, Verify Everyone
The KIDS Act would push the internet toward age verification gates under the banner of protecting kids. Parents should parent. Government should stay out of building identity rails.
The KIDS Act would push the internet toward age verification gates under the banner of protecting kids. Parents should parent. Government should stay out of building identity rails.
Michael Howell says bitcoin weakness reflects a slowing liquidity impulse, not a dead debasement thesis. Plus Jay Patel, Strategy capital management, and Jordi Visser on the AI shakeout.
OpenAI is reportedly limiting GPT-5.6 access at the US government’s request. Marty argues AI safety has become regulatory moat-building as open-weight models catch up and crush pricing.
NVK returns to break down the fiat tax farm, the ARCA data haven he's building at Coinkite, why UBI ends humanity, and how AI hands the unreasonable man the power of a thousand suns.
Brandon Bailey on why bitcoin miners accidentally built the most valuable asset in the AI compute boom, which companies are executing the transition, and why the whole setup is net-positive for Bitcoin and the network.
Pluto, Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter form exact alignments at 4 degrees for the first time in roughly 6,000 years. Marty came in a skeptic and came out convinced something real is converging — because everything he watches daily is pointing the same direction at the same time.
Kyle Olney returns to break down the truck-sized loophole in the BRCA safe harbor, why the Clarity Act in its current form may be worse than nothing, and how the government's AI export controls are the same fight, just running faster.
Bitcoin broke below $59k, stress-testing leverage around the asset while the network keeps clearing blocks. Plus DMND's first known Stratum V2 block, AI compute bottlenecks, miners' HPC fork, MiCA, and stablecoin surveillance.
The KIDS Act would push the internet toward age verification gates under the banner of protecting kids. Parents should parent. Government should stay out of building identity rails.
Michael Howell says bitcoin weakness reflects a slowing liquidity impulse, not a dead debasement thesis. Plus Jay Patel, Strategy capital management, and Jordi Visser on the AI shakeout.
OpenAI is reportedly limiting GPT-5.6 access at the US government’s request. Marty argues AI safety has become regulatory moat-building as open-weight models catch up and crush pricing.
NVK returns to break down the fiat tax farm, the ARCA data haven he's building at Coinkite, why UBI ends humanity, and how AI hands the unreasonable man the power of a thousand suns.
Brandon Bailey on why bitcoin miners accidentally built the most valuable asset in the AI compute boom, which companies are executing the transition, and why the whole setup is net-positive for Bitcoin and the network.
Pluto, Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter form exact alignments at 4 degrees for the first time in roughly 6,000 years. Marty came in a skeptic and came out convinced something real is converging — because everything he watches daily is pointing the same direction at the same time.
Kyle Olney returns to break down the truck-sized loophole in the BRCA safe harbor, why the Clarity Act in its current form may be worse than nothing, and how the government's AI export controls are the same fight, just running faster.
Bitcoin broke below $59k, stress-testing leverage around the asset while the network keeps clearing blocks. Plus DMND's first known Stratum V2 block, AI compute bottlenecks, miners' HPC fork, MiCA, and stablecoin surveillance.
Catholic leaders and four major law enforcement associations oppose the CLARITY Act's BRCA provision. The bill that would have kept Samourai's developers free needs a floor vote by August or it dies.
Apple is threatening to terminate Craig Raw's developer account by June 30, which would end all new Sparrow Wallet installs on macOS. Meanwhile, central banks are accumulating gold at record pace and the EU's MiCA regulation is crushing crypto businesses.
Sakana AI's Fugu Ultra claims frontier parity the same week the U.S. forced Anthropic offline. Bitcoin miners pivot to AI as hashrate drops. Howell says Warsh will let markets tighten.
Valar Atomics' Ward 250 achieves criticality in 9 months from empty site. Plus private credit seizing, Saylor's STRC problem, and yen carry trade risk.
Midjourney, bootstrapped to $200M with zero investors, unveiled a full-body ultrasonic CT scanner: no radiation, no MRI, 60x faster. Plus Warsh dot plot results, Iran peace deal, and on-chain capitulation deepening.
A 219-page independent inquiry funded by 20,000 public donations estimates 250,000 victims across 40% of the UK. Grooming gangs since the 1950s. Institutional cover-up by police, social services, and politicians. PM Starmer silent.
