Watchman

Watching the world unfold.

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸CNBC JUST REPORTED THE US HAS OFFICIALLY APPROVED #BITCOIN FUTURES FOR THE FIRST TIME

BTC "CAN NOW BE TRADED THROUGH EVERY MAJOR FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT IN TRADITIONAL MARKETS"

BTC TAKING OVER WALL STREET — NOT PRICED IN 🚀

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: FLORIDA LEGISLATURE FORMALLY APPROVES ABOLISHING PROPERTY TAXES for most primary homeowners statewide

Both chambers RESOUNDINGLY pass Gov. Ron DeSantis’ proposal, SENDING IT TO VOTERS for approval this November

LET’S GO!!! ☀️👏🏻

Needs 60% of voters this fall.

Florida is MAKING HISTORY!

The homestead exemption will surge up to $250K to start, and a schedule will set its elimination in the future

However, MOST homeowners will already get effective 0 taxes under the proposal.

DO IT NATIONWIDE!

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

SENATOR LUMMIS TELLS CNBC JP MORGAN AND THE BANKS ARE TRYING TO KILL THE CLARITY ACT BECAUSE THEY CAN'T COMPETE

#BITCOIN WILL BE THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM

THE DINOSAURS ARE ABOUT TO GO EXTINCT 🔥

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

Neuroscientist explains HOW TO MANIFEST

[SMQKE @SMQKEDQG]

Jamie Dimon’s words on crypto have never lined up with J.P. Morgan’s actual moves.🙇‍♂️

The same split appears in his comments on the Clarity Act.

A dollar stablecoin that pays yield would increase global demand for the U.S. dollar.✅

That result would benefit the broader system, including banks like J.P. Morgan.🎯

While his opposition may appear to be further delay tactics, it appears to be another case of intentional misdirection.🔃

Remember:

“Watch what they do, not what they say” 💯

Documented.📝👇

[Wu Blockchain @WuBlockchain]

FBI Seizes Over $8B in Crypto, Largest Forfeiture in U.S. History

According to Fox News, the FBI has seized more than $8 billion worth of cryptocurrency and arrested nearly 300 suspects as part of a global crackdown on scam compounds operating across Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and the UAE.

The bureau said the seizure marks the largest cryptocurrency forfeiture in U.S. government history. The operation also helped free nearly 2,000 people allegedly forced to work in scam centers, while Starlink disabled more than 7,000 terminals in Myanmar allegedly linked to fraud activities.

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

🇺🇸 PRESIDENT TRUMP: THE CURRENT FINANCIAL SYSTEM IS OUTDATED AND WILL SOON BE REPLACED WITH A STATE-OF-THE-ART CRYPTOCURRENCY FRAMEWORK UNDER THE NEW STRUCTURE BILL.

THE ENTIRE FINANCIAL SYSTEM COULD GO ON-CHAIN, POWERED BY CRYPTO

YOU ARE NOT BULLISH ENOUGH 🚀

[JackTheRippler ©️ @RippleXrpie]

💥BOOM!

🚨IT'S OFFICIAL: 🇺🇸 Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent says there will be NO CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY under President Trump.

[JackTheRippler ©️ @RippleXrpie]

🇺🇸 JD Vance: "We FIRED Gary Gensler and we are going to fire everybody like him."

[Rimsha Bhardwaj @heyrimsha]

A 17 year old in his mother's kitchen in New Jersey unlocked the iPhone in 2007 so it could run on any carrier in the world, and 18 years later he is the only person on Earth trying to break NVIDIA's monopoly on AI compute from his apartment in San Diego with a 12,000 line piece of code.

His name is George Hotz. Most people call him geohot.

The framework he built is called tinygrad. It is open source. It is MIT licensed. And it is what he believes will end the trillion dollar moat around CUDA.

At just 17, George became the nightmare of tech giants. He did it in his mom's kitchen with a soldering iron and an eBay-bought original iPhone. Apple had locked the device to AT&T. He unlocked it in 500 hours of work over a summer. He uploaded a video to YouTube. The world lost its mind.

Three years later he reverse engineered the PlayStation 3 and put the keys on the internet. Sony sued him. The case settled. He kept hacking.

Elon Musk noticed. He tried to recruit George to fix Tesla's Autopilot. George's response became legend. "I don't want to work for you. I want to beat you."

In 2015 he started his own self-driving car company called comma AI out of a garage. He sold a $1,500 device that you plug into your Honda and it drives itself on highways. The thing actually worked.

Then in November 2022 he walked away from his own company to start something most engineers thought was impossible.

He decided to break NVIDIA.

NVIDIA is worth around 3 trillion dollars right now. Every serious AI lab on Earth runs on NVIDIA GPUs. The reason is not the silicon. AMD makes silicon that is comparable on paper. The reason is CUDA, the software layer NVIDIA spent 20 years building that nobody has been able to replicate.

CUDA is what people in the industry call a moat. A trillion dollar moat.

George looked at this and decided one person could rewrite it.

He started tinygrad in late 2022 as a neural network framework so small you could read the entire codebase in an afternoon. PyTorch has millions of lines of code. Tinygrad fits in roughly 12,000.

His bet was that if you could write a framework small enough for one human to understand, you could port it to any hardware on Earth in months instead of years.

He bought six AMD Radeon 7900 XTX cards, the consumer gaming GPUs you can buy at Best Buy, and tried to make them train AI models. AMD said it would not work. The drivers were too unstable. ROCm, AMD's official software stack, was famously broken.

For two years George fought AMD publicly on X. He posted bug reports daily. He called out AMD's CEO Lisa Su by name. He live streamed himself debugging firmware crashes at 3 in the morning. The AMD subreddit followed it like a soap opera.

Then in March 2025 something changed.

AMD shipped him two MI300X data center systems, the same chips that power Microsoft and Meta's AI infrastructure. AMD's lead GPU software engineer Anush Elangovan posted publicly that he was working closely with tinygrad to "commoditize the petaflop."

George wrote a blog post titled "AMD YOLO" the same day. Tinygrad now has a fully sovereign AMD stack. They rewrote the entire pipeline from the hardware up to PyTorch compatibility. Their own driver. Their own runtime. Their own libraries.

The line that broke the AI infrastructure world was this one. NVIDIA is either massively overvalued or AMD is massively undervalued. The hardware is similar. CUDA is not the moat people think it is.

The whole thing runs on roughly 12,000 lines of code.

You can buy a Tinybox from him today. Six AMD GPUs in a custom chassis. Around $15,000. It trains models. It works.

NVIDIA spent 20 years building the deepest moat in tech.

A solo hacker just walked across it.

[STEPH IS CRYPTO @Steph_iscrypto]

MASSIVE: 🇺🇸Coinbase just CONFIRMED Washington is preparing to accelerate crypto rulemaking around the $30,000,000,000,000+ U.S. financial system IMMEDIATELY after the CLARITY Act passes.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This tick crisis is getting out of hand and it’s going to be almost impossible to avoid if you are in these areas

- The black speck all the way to the right is pepper
- The speck in the middle is a grain of salt
- That tiny speck to the left, that’s a tick

Here’s everything that’s being effected

Northeast highest activity overall

Connecticut especially high submission rates with 40% Lyme-positive ticks
New York
Pennsylvania leads in Lyme cases
Massachusetts
Maine
New Jersey
Vermont
New Hampshire
Rhode Island: ER visits for tick bites are at record highs for this time of year

Upper Midwest

Michigan Lyme cases rising sharply
Wisconsin
Minnesota significant increases in tick activity and related illnesses

Mid-Atlantic states

Virginia
Maryland
West Virginia
Delaware strong populations of blacklegged and lone star ticks

Parts of the Southeast and South

Georgia
Texas
North Carolina
Expanding to gulf coast area

Also

Ohio
Illinois
Scattered reports in California and Florida

Isn’t it amazing that Lyme disease rates from ticks are skyrocketing right when Pfizer is working on a a Lyme disease vaccine

[🌸Eri ~ Carpe Diem @sentosumosaba]

.@AnodosFinance Vision: Millions not realizing they're using blockchain.

[CryptoGoos @cryptogoos]

THIS IS MASSIVE

🇺🇸 The SEC just approved Nasdaq Bitcoin index options trading.

BIG 🚀

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

🇺🇸 WHITE HOUSE SAID IT’S ENDING ALL “UNNECESSARY REGULATIONS” FOR BITCOIN & CRYPTO.

TIGHTEN YOUR SEATBELTS 🚀

[ᴛʀᴀᴄᴇʀ @DeFiTracer]

🚨 BREAKING:

🇺🇸 PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL SWEAR IN KEVIN WARSH AS FED CHAIR AT 11 AM, REPLACING JEROME POWELL

HE IS THE FIRST EVER PRO-BITCOIN FED CHAIR AND TRUMP EXPECTS HIM TO CUT RATES "IMMIDIATELY"

THIS IS EXTREMELY BULLISH FOR MARKETS!!

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

JUST IN: $60 BILLION COINBASE JUST SAID THE #BITCOIN CLARITY ACT WILL PASS AND THE INDUSTRY WILL EXPLODE

MILLIONS WILL “BECOME THEIR OWN BANK"

BILLIONS WILL BE MADE ON CRYPTO APPLICATIONS

CLARITY BOOM IS COMING 🚀

[JackTheRippler ©️ @RippleXrpie]

🚨BREAKING: 🇺🇸 President Trump ORDERS US government to update regulations to INTEGRATE CRYPTO into traditional finance and payment systems.

IT'S HAPPENING! 🔥

[Crypto Tice @CryptoTice_]

BREAKING:

The White House just declared war on crypto regulation.

All unnecessary regulations. Gone.
Not reduced. Not reviewed. Ended.

The same government that spent years trying to regulate crypto into oblivion.
Just cleared the path completely.

- CLARITY Act passing.
- Zero capital gains tax proposed.
- Strategic Bitcoin Reserve confirmed.

And now the White House eliminating every remaining regulatory barrier. One by one every obstacle is being removed.

$20,000,000,000,000 is waiting for a clear path.
The White House just paved it.

Are you positioned.

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

instead of watching 2 hours of Netflix tonight, watch this Stanford lecture

it's the clearest explanation I've seen of how ChatGPT and Claude actually work

useful whether you've never touched AI in your life or have been using it every day for the past year

I took the key ideas and turned them into a practical guide on how to actually get 100% out of Claude

find it below