We've exited the era of crypto as niche experimental technology for hobbyists and ideologues.
We've entered the era of crypto as a real upgrade to the financial system, a challenge to incumbents using regulatory moats to defend old products against innovation.
Innovation wins.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
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I've always thought of BTC as gold, but digital and better.
It's pseudonymous (everything is traceable on-chain, yet nobody needs to know you're carrying coins), censorship resistant, and permissionless. It can be insurance against seizure. It's far easier to move funds around the world in BTC than through the clumsy plumbing and compliance of banking rails. And it doesn't inflate in supply: hard capped at 21M, arguably even less in practice once you account for lost coins (assuming quantum never resurrects those dead wallets).
The fundamentals line up for the long-term investor, and Saylor-type ponzis are just noise over a long enough horizon. Yet there's a real flow problem right now: the two main buyers of this cycle, the ETFs and Saylor, have both turned sellers, and we're finding out how few others are willing to bid. US spot BTC ETFs just printed their longest outflow streak on record (~$4.4B over 13 straight days, flipping 2026 net flows negative for the first time), and Strategy (MSTR) sold BTC for the first time since 2022. Saylor's sale itself was tiny and symbolic, but it cracked the "never sell" narrative at the worst possible moment.
The elephant in the room is simple: new technology is threatening BTC's investability. This has been brewing for a couple of years now, and it's the first real existential question mark over the asset.
Frontier AI (Claude Mythos and the rest) is an attack vector for crypto, BTC included. Not so much the base-layer code, but the custody and exchange surface. You can use a Trezor, a reputable cold-wallet provider, a custodian, and still there's no guarantee the system generating your keys is truly flawless and bullet-proof against every attack. The question always sits in the back of an investor's mind: "will my coins actually be safe if I park them here?"
Q๐ฎ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฆ. ๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐จ-๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ซ (๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ซ๐๐ค๐) ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐-๐๐๐ฒ ๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐๐% ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐% ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐. ๐๐จ ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐. ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ, ๐ฌ๐ข๐ณ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐, ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ -๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฆ ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ. ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง-๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐, ๐จ๐ง ๐ ๐๐-๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ-๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ง, ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ง ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐?
Now the good news: all of this FUD has been well known for a while, and a lot of the selling since 2025 stems from exactly these fears. I believe most of those who had to sell for these two reasons already have. The latest leg down is more in the realm of short-term noise and speculation around Saylor, which is a separate story entirely.
There are already serious proposals to make BTC quantum resistant, BIP-360 (the quantum-safe address type) and BIP-361 (the legacy migration plan) among them. What's missing is a real push toward implementing a solution. I believe that once we see that push, the large long-term buyers come back, and the bull market resumes.
Maybe people put too much weight on short-term speculation and lose sight of the long horizon. If you buy today's blood, you front-run tomorrow's quantum update. And you might even end up holding multiple coins for every BTC you own today (quantum-safe, OG, hard-fork variants, and so on).
In that spirit: I've felt deeply that it was over many times since 2016, and today is one of those days. It always feels that way near the cycle lows.
Cheers, and if you feel like selling, do it, you bunch of pussies.
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