TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Trump and Bessent's $250 bill photo sums up the current moment, but under the surface the economy is tearing apart. AI stocks are ripping while credit card delinquencies hit 2008 levels. We get into why oil is artificially cheap, why data centers are becoming a political target, and the Bitcoin developments everyone is ignoring.

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In this episode:

Trump and Bessent's $250 bill vs the iconic Fed building audit photo

Chevron and Exxon CEOs call BS on suppressed oil prices amid SPR drains

Micron and Dell hit record highs as AI infrastructure proves it's not 1999

Credit card delinquencies and savings rates flash K-shaped warning signs

Why Brad Gerstner is pitching dividends to calm AI data center opposition

Iran's Hormuz Safe and Calyx's Cashew protocol validate Bitcoin's core thesis

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - Getting the band back together after Memorial Day

00:01:02 - Trump, Powell, and the $250 bill photo

00:02:34 - The K-shaped economy acceleration

00:03:00 - Oil prices, Hormuz, and strategic reserve draws

00:05:41 - Chevron and Exxon call BS on manufactured oil prices

00:07:30 - AI infrastructure: Micron, Dell, and record earnings

00:09:03 - Why this AI boom isn't the dot-com bubble

00:12:22 - xAI Colossus, Anthropic's raise, and OpenAI breakthroughs

00:16:08 - Delinquencies and savings flash K-shaped warnings

00:19:41 - Gerstner's dividend plan vs NYC seizure rhetoric

00:24:24 - AI data centers, energy, and narrative battles

00:26:48 - Bitcoin's Hormuz Safe development

00:28:38 - Cashew protocol, TEEs, and Bitcoin privacy

00:30:45 - Sentiment worst since 2015 and why it matters

00:34:25 - No summer doldrums this year

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Marty sits down with Joe Consorti to discuss the K-shaped economy and why money printing has severed markets from reality, the Fed's trap between soaring interest expense and oil-driven inflation, the looming return of stimulus checks, Bitcoin's rise as neutral geopolitical settlement money in the Hormuz crisis, and the cultural decay downstream from fiat currency.

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