In a wide-ranging conversation on What Bitcoin Did, Rod Roudi, co-founder of Bitcoin Park, emphasized that Bitcoin’s long-term success hinges on open-source “freedom tech” rather than “closed source, proprietary, highly regulated modes.” Roudi detailed how grassroots meetups, consistent community building, and education on custody practices are driving adoption. He described Nashville’s Bitcoin Park as a model for durable local ecosystems, cautioning that “you can’t really manufacture a Bitcoin community.” He also recounted the bitcoin mining focused, 256 Foundation’s live “Telehash” event, where the team improbably solo-mined a block worth over over 3 bitcoin, an experience he called the peak of his Bitcoin career. Roudi highlights the “convergence between Bitcoin, AI, and energy,” citing innovations like Jack Dorsey’s Block miner and home-heating rigs powered by mining and previewed the upcoming Imagine IF summit of summits in Nashville, designed as a TED-style forum exploring Bitcoin, AI, energy, and open-source technology.
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Digital China AI Research’s Guancheng Zeng et al. present Routine, a structured plan-and-execute framework that boosts multi-step tool use in enterprise LLM agents. The authors write: “Routine significantly increases the execution accuracy in model tool calls, increasing the performance of GPT-4o from 41.1% to 96.3%, and Qwen3-14B from 32.6% to 83.3%.” Routine formalizes steps, branches, and parameters; a small execution model follows plans while MCP tool servers and short-lived variable memory handle calls and long arguments. Distillation with Routine-guided traces raises Qwen3-14B to 95.5%, approaching GPT-4o, enabling cheaper, reliable deployments. Zeng’s team proposes Routine to adapt plans and a hierarchical controller for specialized agents, expanding the idea to “AI for Process,” in business applications. If replicated, Routine could become enterprise plumbing, codifying workflows, reducing hallucinations, improving uptime, and letting compact models meet governance and cost targets for regulated, mission-critical enterprise workloads, safely, worldwide.
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A Gujarat special anti-corruption court has sentenced 14 people, including former BJP legislator Nalin Kotadiya and senior police officers, to life imprisonment for kidnapping and extorting bitcoin from businessman Shailesh Bhatt in 2018, reports Alex Lari. Judge B.B. Jadav ruled the group guilty of conspiracy, kidnapping, and abuse of power, calling such conduct “like a termite in society, corroding both governance and the economy.” Bhatt, who had recouped funds from the collapsed $900 million BitConnect scheme, was abducted and coerced into surrendering bitcoin and cash worth millions. Prosecutors said the gang initially demanded 176 BTC and ₹320 million, later forcing a transfer of 34 BTC. The trial featured 173 witnesses, many of whom turned hostile, but Special Public Prosecutor Amit Patel secured convictions under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The case highlights both growing digital asset crime and the challenge of restoring public trust when state power is abused. Enforcement agencies are expected to continue to step up oversight, while Bitcoin’s permissionless role in finance may intensify regulatory scrutiny in India.
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Peter Thiel and Michael Saylor represent starkly different philosophies on digital asset treasuries, reports Cointelegraph. Saylor’s firm, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), has pioneered what some call an “infinite money glitch” by issuing equity to buy Bitcoin, boosting both BTC’s price and the firm’s valuation, then repeating the cycle. His approach is uncompromisingly Bitcoin-only, with rhetoric that casts the asset as essential to U.S. power. By contrast, Thiel has spread bets through Founders Fund, allocating $100 million each to Bitcoin and Ether, acquiring equity in mining and biotech firms with crypto exposure, and backing Bullish, a recently listed exchange. Skeptics warn Saylor’s model risks a “death spiral” if Bitcoin’s price falls near the firm’s net asset value, cutting off access to fresh capital. Thiel’s diversified play offers some insulation but with less technological conviction. With Bitcoin treasuries proliferating, the next downturn may decide the fate of a Thiel or Saylor strategy.
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