Brian Hill

@krakenfx entrusted Etana with millions of dollars that it was supposed to safekeep but has failed to return. Today our federal lawsuit against Etana and its CEO is calling it what it is: fraud. Complaint here: bsfllp.com/a/web/7vyvfrjK…. 1/3 🧵

@cristiancrespoj Consignas, Consignas... De eso alimentan al pueblo.#PatriaYVids.#AbajoLaDictadura.#VivaLaLibertad.. #CubaNext

@CruiseWithZee @Polymarket Jajajaja 🤣

Mexico investigating itself over officials tied to the Sinaloa cartel is like asking the leaking pipe to write the plumber’s report. The fact that they felt the need to announce it the same day the U.S. dropped the indictments tells you exactly how embarrassed they are right now.

JUST IN: Mexico says it will conduct its own investigation after U.S. indicts 10 current and former officials tied to the Sinaloa cartel.

Mazatlan. I want one @tesla

@Osint613 Big deal. Puerto Rico had 16.

Over a dozen earthquakes struck near Nevada's Area 51 in the past 24 hours. - Daily Mail

Progress. Glad to see they still support flying into Cuba 🇨🇺 also when other airlines bailed. @AmericanAir

@Vivek4real_ Imminent domain MSTR. Could happen

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 US SECRETARY OF WAR JUST OPENLY REVEALED THAT THEY ARE NOW RUNNING INITIATIVES TO GAIN A STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE IN BITCOIN 🤯 HE AGREED THAT BITCOIN IS NOW A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY THIS IS ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE, AND EVERY COUNTRY WILL FOLLOW

That’s messed up Peter. BancoPopular killed my account because of deposits made from Coinbase. A publicly traded company. And just today @bofa would not let my brother deposit cash to my account unless he is on the account. I’m abroad at the moment and it was line $400: bankers will be gone very soon.

An internal IRS emial obtain by my FOIA lawsuit evidences that Puerto Rican regulators shut down my bank in part so Puerto Rico would no longer be considered a high risk/tax haven juristiciton, despite knowning that my bank had strong AML and KYC designed to prevent tax evasion.

@bofa what’s the deal? I’m out of the country and my brother went to deposit $200 cash and they would not let him do that for me unless his name is on the account. #BTC fixes this. #debanked

@APompliano Because is work is done.

Why has Jerome Powell been so quiet lately? Seems weird.

@topaz_211 @StateDept @SecRubio And what is your proposal to change the situation?

@injetcity @StateDept @SecRubio Of course he knows you Anglo-Saxon clown. He imposes the fuel embargo to create all this.

SECRETARY RUBIO: Things can get better in Cuba with serious economic reforms, but not with the current people in charge. They are economically incompetent. They've rolled out the welcome mat to our adversaries to operate in Cuban territory against our national interests with impunity.

@WallStreetApes Don’t forget the use of drones with Stingers attached to monitor cellular activity. Stingers trick your phone into thinking it’s a cell tower and relays from there tracking all data flowing through.

This is horrifying Rep Lauren Boebert “They're scanning our faces in public places at protests, even at our children's schools. The government is building secret databases they can go through anytime that they feel like it” “This is an absolute egregious reach on our Fourth Amendment rights. They're creating a digital footprint of your entire life without a single warrant or even probable cause.” “Your morning commute to work, it's tracked dropping off your kids at their soccer practice that's logged, visiting a church or a gun range recorded forever in government, in a government-accessible database.” In response to this, Rep Lauren Boebert and Rep Thomas Massie introduce their new Surveillance Accountability Act (H.R. 8470) This bill will require probable-cause warrants for many forms of government surveillance, including warrantless facial recognition in public spaces This includes protests, schools, places of worship, automated license plate readers and even access to commercial data This bill must pass

@specbump @BitcoinatBlock @blocks @Bitkey @CashApp @Square @KinesisMonetary also has a solution for using gold back crypto.

@BitcoinatBlock @blocks @Bitkey @CashApp @Square Do people “use” gold? Does gold “work”?

Bitcoin only works if people use it. Today at @Blocks, we’re making that easier: • New @Bitkey with 100% more screen • 5% BTC Back with @CashApp at @Square merchants • Turn P2P payments into bitcoin on @CashApp • Soon, NFC tap to pay and bitcoin toggle on @Square • Proof of Reserves you can verify This is how bitcoin becomes everyday money.

@specbump @BitcoinatBlock @blocks @Bitkey @CashApp @Square @GeorgeGammon did a nice video awhile back where he travelled to South America with only gold and bitcoin and documented his journey. You can find it on his YouTube channel.

Cuba has allowed small business to grow. My friend there works very hard and has his own restaurant. Everyday we make the rounds at local markets to buy daily ingredients for his restaurant. He has a generator for his restaurant but doesn’t use it right now when the power goes out because gas is $10/liter or ~$40 a gallon. In a place where a pack of cigarettes and a can of beer costs $1.25 it’s hard for that math to work.

The issue is, what to do with the 10 million, mostly indoctrinated Cubans still on the island. It’s basically a massive welfare state created over 65 years through socialist policies and endless handouts. How do you fix something like that without totalitarian rule? Sounds like a huge money pit to me right now.

@Notwokenow Tesla Truck time!

This. Is. Terrifying. This technology should NEVER be allowed to be used. Ford can fvck right off and so can the Congress members who voted to put this tech in vehicles starting in 2027.

Next time you buy gas, ask the attendant how much of the price is gas and how much are the taxes? I’ve never received an answer. I once kept track of a dollar earned. Now deduct the tax on that dollar (i.e. employment) then with what’s left track the spending tax. Hard to do if you buy gas. If you pay for parking at the WAC in Seattle, you pay like 20.5% parking tax. If you purchase an item at the airport, you pay fees and taxes. You see where I’m going with this…

@aakashgupta The wildest part is watching states that screamed about a two cent gas tax hike quietly build billion dollar revenue streams by turning every phone into a slot machine.

Warren Buffett, in his first sit-down since stepping down as Berkshire CEO, gave the cleanest indictment of legalized gambling in a decade. He called it a tax cut for the wealthy. The math proves him exactly right. Americans wagered $165 billion at legal sportsbooks in 2025. They lost $16 billion of that. FanDuel pulled $6 billion of the losses. DraftKings pulled $5.3 billion. Every state with legal mobile sports betting collected a tax on the bettor side. New York alone took in over $1.2 billion in 2025 sports betting tax revenue. Layer the lottery on top. State lotteries generate over $90 billion a year. The bottom half of income earners account for roughly 70% of total spend. The average lottery player makes $38,000. A household earning $20,000 spends three times more on tickets than one earning $30,000. The implicit tax rate, meaning whatever the state keeps after prizes, runs 30 to 50% depending on the game. No other revenue source in America has that base and that rate. The structural design is the engine. A single straight sports bet carries a hold of 4 to 5%. A four-leg parlay carries a hold above 30%. FanDuel and DraftKings spent five years rebuilding their apps to make parlays the default product. FanDuel's blended hold rate hit 11.4% in 2025, up from roughly 7% in 2022. The product got worse for the customer and the customer wagered more anyway. Now look at the substitution. Nine US states have no state income tax. Seven of those nine run state lotteries. Seven of those nine have legalized sports betting. The states most committed to never taxing wealth are the same states running the largest extraction machines on people who cannot afford to lose. Read it as policy. Here is what Buffett is actually pointing at. The state needs revenue. It can raise income tax on the top decile, or it can run a lottery plus a sports betting tax. The second option raises the money from the people who can least afford it. The first option becomes politically optional. New York's $1.2 billion in 2025 sports betting tax is $1.2 billion the state did not have to ask of someone earning $5 million. DraftKings and FanDuel sell a privatized collection mechanism for a regressive tax that the state never has to defend at the ballot box again. Voters approve legalization once. Collection runs forever. The state takes a cut. The wealthy get a quieter top bracket. The bettor's cut shrinks every quarter as the parlay menu gets pushed harder. The function of a government, Buffett said, is not to play its people for suckers. Thirty-nine state governments now do.

🚨 This shouldn’t be possible… but Microsoft just did it. They made a 100B parameter model run on a single CPU. No GPU. No insane setup. Just math rewritten from scratch. Here’s the part most people are missing 👇 Traditional LLMs = 16-bit floats Every weight = messy decimal (0.0023, -1.47…) Inference = billions of float multiplications → That’s why GPUs exist BitNet flips the entire game. Instead of floats, it uses ternary weights: {-1, 0, 1} Not compression. Not optimization. A completely different computing primitive. Now look what happens: → ×1 = keep value → ×(-1) = flip sign → ×0 = ignore That’s it. No multiplications. Just add, subtract, skip. Matrix multiplication (the core of AI) becomes: cheap integer ops on a CPU And the results? → 2x–6x faster on CPUs → Up to 82% less energy usage → Scales BETTER with bigger models Let that sink in: A 100B model running at 5–7 tokens/sec on a single CPU This is not “optimization” This is a paradigm shift And the craziest part? These models are NOT quantized later They are trained like this from day one. No precision loss No quality drop The model literally learns inside the constraint Why 1.58 bits? Because: log₂(3) ≈ 1.58 3 possible values → max efficiency per weight We’re watching the hardware bottleneck disappear in real time. AI is not getting smaller. The math is getting smarter. Bookmark this. In a year, running LLMs locally won’t be impressive. Not running them locally will be.