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Noam Shazeer co-authored the original transformer paper, co-led Google's Gemini, and is now leaving for OpenAI.
One of the most important researchers in the history of modern AI just switched teams heading into OpenAI's IPO.
It’s time to repeal the Bank Secrecy Act. It should have never passed in the 1970s and the onerous compliance costs it thrusts on companies while doubling as a dragnet surveillance system is completely anathema to the ideals this country was founded on.
"If you were to show the justices in the '70s who barely found the BSA passable what has happened today, I think they would flip the table."
@KyleOlney on how a $10,000 reporting threshold from 1970 never got adjusted for inflation and became a tool to surveil every American.
TFTC 759 w/ @KyleOlney: "Epstein got 1,000 suspicious activity reports. Nothing happened. Now they're hiding loopholes to jail Bitcoiners."
We discuss:
⚡ The hidden trap
⚡ Why Bitcoiners are leaving
⚡ The same fight
Non-custodial bitcoin lending, the way it should work.
@LygosFinance locks your BTC in a 2-of-2 multisig on Layer 1.
No wrapping, no bridges, no counterparty risk.
"The market over the long term will re-tether you to value. It may take decades, but it happens every single time any government has ever gone through that untethering event."
@RepNickBegich argues the dollar's disconnect from scarcity isn't permanent.
"I got Goxed. I had about 440 bitcoin with Mt. Gox when they declared bankruptcy."
@RepNickBegich says he's been in bitcoin since January 2013. Lost 440 BTC on Mt. Gox and still came back because he believed in the thesis.
Indiana:
Passed the Bitcoin Bill of Rights.
- House Bill 1042 (HB 1042)
- March 3, 2026, signed into law
- iga.in.gov/legislative/20…
- Protects the right to self-custody
- Prohibits government from imposing discriminatory taxes or fees
- Requires public retirement plans to
The Digital Chamber and Illinois Blockchain Association are calling Illinois' new 0.2% crypto tax "substantively unsound, procedurally deficient, and economically destructive."
It was slipped into the state budget overnight with zero stakeholder outreach.
Block just launched Builderbot, an AI tool that coordinates multiple agents across their entire codebase from inside Slack.
Tag it in a thread with what you need and it researches, plans, writes the code, opens the PR, watches CI, and iterates on feedback.
It's already merging
President Trump comments on the Fed's decision to hold interest rates steady: "It's alright... We have a very good guy over there now, so I'm guided by what he wants to do."
"It was almost an 8-point earthquake in Silicon Valley."
@KyleOlney on what happened when Anthropic revealed the real cost of tokens and then the US government pulled access to their best model the following week.
Two gut punches in two weeks.