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[jonmessier @jonmessier]

@SantiagoAuFund 😜

[TFTC @TFTC21]

We're doing another @Bitkey giveaway!

A built-in screen. No seed phrase. 2-of-3 multisig.

Follow @Bitkey and us, RT to enter. ✅

Winner announced Tuesday 6/23 at 4PM EST.

[Keonne Rodriguez @keonne]

I am writing from FPC Morgantown prison in West Virginia. It has been about 5 months since I first surrendered myself in December, and I will be honest, the prospect of a Presidential pardon is very low. There was some hope during the Bitcoin 2026 conference, but that has now come and gone, and one must come to terms with the fact that I am simply a federal prisoner without money, power, or influence, and I will serve my full sentence. It will be years before I can even attempt to rebuild my life. Which is why I am now writing this appeal to you all now. Things are dire and we need your help.

Lauren and I need your help desperately. More than ever before. We have over $2 Million of debt due to legal fees. We have a $250k fine the judge levied against us. Every day I get letters and calls from anxious lawyers looking to be paid. Or the DOJ demanding I start making payments on my fine. Perhaps it was denial or delusion, but I had hoped to do what I have always done and dig myself out of this hole myself - but with the reality of serving a full sentence that is not possible. I hate to ask for your help in this way but we are entirely out of options. We need to pay off these legal bills and other debts accrued attempting to defend myself. We desperately need your help. Now.

For 10 years Bill and I built and published open source code and tools for Bitcoin users. Those same tools and code are what the government says were criminal. The tools and code still exist, they are out there right now and always will be. The creators however are locked away in Federal prison. The creators are the ones whose lives have been decimated. The creators are the ones who have been financially wiped out. The creators are the ones who desperately need you now. Please donate whatever you can to bc1qtjjcvn98wh7dfd55m8kxhjcfexanttwt8gtan8 . We have to get this albatross from around our neck.

Samourai had well over 100,000 users. These users pushed over 2 billion dollars through our open source tools. We need those users and any bitcoiner who appreciates the work that we put into this industry for over a decade to help us now. Please donate whatever you can to bc1qtjjcvn98wh7dfd55m8kxhjcfexanttwt8gtan8 right now.

If you require a private address please DM my wife @leamuirleyn and she will provide one. Please do not delay. Time is of the essence. Please help us.

- Keonne

[jonmessier @jonmessier]

@keonne Done

[TFTC @TFTC21]

The new @Bitkey dropped with a built-in secure screen and we're giving one away 🟠

No seed phrase. 2-of-3 multisig. Biometric login.

Follow @Bitkey and us, RT to enter. ✅

Winner announced Tuesday 5/12 at 4PM EST.

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

Those who are sufficiently qualified to guess Satoshi's identity will also understand why they shouldn't.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@SenRickScott .@grok, what is the net budgetary effect of the Big Beautiful Bill over its first four years?

[Saifedean Ammous @saifedean]

In a free society, money will end up being scarce, and information will end up being free.

Fiat world is the insanity of using violence to create scarcity in information that wants to be free, and using violence to create abundance in money that wants to be scarce.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Folks, we told you this was coming, and today the mask is fully off.

A couple weeks back we reported, based on solid sources, that Coinbase was quietly lobbying to kill a real de minimis tax exemption for Bitcoin while pushing one that applied only to stablecoins like USDC. We laid out the clear incentives in our deep dive. Coinbase made 1.35 billion dollars in stablecoin revenue last year, up 48 percent year over year, almost entirely from yield on the Treasuries backing USDC.

A proper Bitcoin de minimis would let people spend sats on everyday purchases without triggering taxable events on every transaction. That directly competes with their centralized yield machine. We called it what it was. Policy that protects Coinbase’s float rather than advancing neutral Bitcoin adoption.

Brian Armstrong pushed back hard. He called our reporting totally false and misinformation while insisting he was personally lobbying for Bitcoin de minimis. Some accused us of lying or spreading rumors. We stood firm. We offered to have Brian on the TFTC podcast to clear the air. We waited.

Now the latest draft from Reps. Horsford and Max Miller on the updated PARITY Act framework has dropped. It confirms exactly what we warned about. It gives a de minimis exemption to stablecoins but leaves Bitcoin out entirely. It keeps the punishing double taxation on Bitcoin mining fully intact while carving out relief for passive validation, basically staking. This is not an oversight or sloppy drafting. It abandons any pretense of technology neutrality and deliberately picks winners. Dollar-pegged stables and staking get the breaks, while actual Bitcoin usage as money and Proof-of-Work mining get kneecapped.

Without de minimis for Bitcoin, every small Lightning payment or sat transaction still forces cost-basis tracking and IRS headaches. Paying your plumber in sats or grabbing lunch with Bitcoin remains a taxable event. Stablecoins, being pegged and low-volatility, get an exemption they barely need. The real beneficiary is protecting that massive USDC reserve float and the yield it generates.

Meanwhile, American Bitcoin miners, already operating in one of the toughest, most capital- and energy-intensive industries, face continued double taxation while staking gets a pass. That is not neutral policy. It is industrial policy against domestic Bitcoin mining at a time when we should be leaning into energy abundance and securing the hardest monetary network.

The Bitcoin Policy Institute is releasing a full statement soon, and we fully back the call for strong community pushback. Every Bitcoiner needs to contact their reps and make it politically radioactive to sideline Bitcoin while handing carve-outs to stables and staking. This language slows real adoption, entrenches custodians, and weakens American Bitcoin infrastructure.

We weren’t lying. Our sources weren’t lying. The draft proves the reporting was on target. Those who rushed to call it misinformation owe the community some honest reflection.

Brian, if you’re still open to that conversation, the invitation stands. Come on the podcast. No spin, just walk us through how this draft lines up with your stated support for Bitcoin de minimis. The mic is warm.

This fight isn’t over. Bitcoin doesn’t need permission, but bad policy can delay sovereign adoption and punish the miners securing the network. We’re here to protect the protocol and the right of individuals to use sound money without turning every transaction into a compliance nightmare.

Stay sovereign. Stack sats. Use Bitcoin as money anyway. Call your reps today.

[Solo Satoshi 🇺🇲 @SoloSatoshi]

JUST IN: Start9 announced an open source router.

Open source hardware. Open source firmware. Open source OS.

No tracking. No data collection. No hidden code.

[jonmessier @jonmessier]

@CryptoWendyO @EmilioDeLosSa20 Without yield stable coins become far less attractive. (BTC will look even better as we inflate the debt into stablecoins). Not sure this is the right call for a centralizing authority.

[jonmessier @jonmessier]

@theragetech @L0laL33tz I loved Niantics game Ingress. Pokemon was meh

[The Rage @theragetech]

🚨SCOOP: Everyone's reporting that Pokemon GO data is training delivery robots. That's the PR version.

In Dec 2025, Niantic partnered with Vantor – a major defense contractor selling targeting systems for autonomous weapons to Lockheed Martin, Anduril, and the Pentagon.

The model you helped build is used to kill people – and that shouldn't be a surprise.

Full story👇
https://t.co/ASlWVVPL5F

[₿itronics @BitronicsStore]

It’s been a long time since we last did a giveaway…

So here you go.

A BIG one. 🟠🔥

To celebrate our latest solo block and because the plebminer community deserves it we’re giving away:

🟠 1 NerdOctaxe ~ 12TH/s
🟠 High-efficiency air cooling
🟠 Stand included
🟠 Power Supply included
🟠 Few cool stickers

Serious hashrate. Real home mining. No excuses.
The rules are simple:
🚨 Follow @BitronicsStore on X
🚨 Like, repost, and comment why you need a home miner in your life

🗓 Winner announced March 6th at 21:00 UTC+2.

Good luck everyone!🤞🍀

[jonmessier @jonmessier]

@notafbihoneypot Authy

[jonmessier @jonmessier]

@brucefenton I've heard this a lot. What do U think is in the files? ATM, we're so desensitized by DJTs hijinks, and brutality, Epstein is less titillating. He probably was there to get underage golden showers w/ all the celeb wannabes. Numbing via info barrage/headlines is the goal

[jonmessier @jonmessier]

@SantiagoAuFund @thoughtfulmoney I listened to your recent discussion on stablecoins. Thank you for the insight. Since USDT lives largely on ETH, SOL and TRON rails, do you see these "assets" growing in USD valuation over time?

[jonmessier @jonmessier]

@cluborange Good game

[jonmessier @jonmessier]

@cluborange Haha

[jonmessier @jonmessier]

@hendry_hugh Crazy to see the transformation to a maxi online in just a couple years.