my spidey senses are telling me the labs are, as we speak, using unguardrailed versions of their unreleased models to systematically reverse-engineer ALL of the internet’s software, apps, and games, then feeding the reconstructed source code straight into their training pipelines while simultaneously building guardrails to ladder-pull the rest of usView quoted post on X
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Two years ago, the Trump administration came into office promising to make America the crypto capital of the planet. Yesterday, Americans voted, as they seem to enjoy doing, for change. What does a blue wave say about President Trump's promise and America's take on bitcoin?
1. Affordability was on the ballot.
Affordability defined the election. In one NBC exit poll, 89% of voters called the cost of living a “crucial or major factor in their vote”. In the last Harvard CAPS/Harris survey before the vote, price increases led every other issue.
Prices are in part a question of monetary design — do we inflate away or not? And that's where bitcoin comes in. Bitcoin is a money whose supply no one can inflate at will. It's capped, and new supply is governed by rules, not rulers. A fixed supply does not lower grocery prices. But it does offer savers of any political orientation a unit that no administration can debase.
2. Crypto money did not decide the outcome.
The crypto industry spent about $200 million this cycle. Its largest super PAC network alone spent more than $170 million: about $75 million backing Republicans and $36 million opposing Democrats, against $30 million backing Democrats. Most of that money went to competitive races its candidates lost, Ohio’s Senate seat chief among them.
3. A wide swath of Americans hold bitcoin.
The Nakamoto Project’s national surveys find that bitcoin owners belong to no political tribe. In 2024, ownership was highest among the very liberal (21.9%), then the very conservative (17.6%), then moderates (14.3%); only age and gender strongly predicted it. In 2025, owners still clustered at the ideological center.
Since so many Americans hold bitcoin, across the ideological spectrum, lawmakers still have reason to enact policies that do not threaten their ability to save in bitcoin or spend it.
4. The debanking argument for bitcoin remains strong, and non-partisan.
Debanking is the exclusion of law-abiding enterprises or individuals from financial services because they are politically disfavored or otherwise distasteful. Senator Elizabeth Warren thinks that debanking is a problem. So does President Trump.
And there is, surprise surprise, a bitcoin connection here as well. Because bitcoin is money no one can block you from using, it serves as a useful backup for anyone at risk of being debanked, and an alternative to traditional financial institutions.
5. Trust is low; alternatives are enticing.
Americans have never trusted institutions less. And arguably, those institutions — from higher education to Washington — have failed to earn trust. Though it rotates in degree as parties swap places on the Hill, this erosion in trust remains a broad trend.
Bitcoin, mercifully, was not on the ballot. In a way, it can't be. Because bitcoin is money that lies outside institutions. You can hold it yourself. You can spend it without anyone's permission. For that reason, it remains an enticing alternative for Americans looking for change.
Bitcoin Policy Institute’s Quarterly Report for Q3 is live.
You can read about our Freedom Tech DC summit with Jack Dorsey and Michael Saylor, our new State Department partnership, Sam Lyman’s congressional testimony, our latest policy proposals, and much more.
Attached below is the executive summary. You can access the full report here:
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NEW: Money For AI Q3 Update 📄
Earlier this year, we studied which forms of money AI models would choose for four financial tasks: saving for the future, making payments, setting prices/keeping accounts, and settling payments.
For our Q3 follow-up, we tested 13 new models using the same questions and classification method. The same broad pattern emerged:
• Bitcoin was selected in 70.8% of responses to savings questions.
• Stablecoins were selected in 73.5% of responses to questions about paying for goods and services.
These results show a clear distinction between saving and spending: the latest models continue to favor Bitcoin for holding value over time and stablecoins for everyday payments. As AI agents take on more financial tasks, these preferences could influence which forms of digital money they use.
Read the full results on our website at: moneyforai.org/v2View quoted post on X
Just 20 days after publishing our Data Center Dividends report, President Trump backed the concept surrounded by the world's AI leaders.
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