Ten31 Timestamp: Fast Takeoffs And Hard Landings
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
World War 3 is heating up and most people are missing the bigger strategic picture. What just went down in Iran and why anthropic got blacklisted by the Pentagon.
In this episode:
- US-Iran conflict as part of broader China decoupling strategy
- Pentagon vs Anthropic: The AI Patriot Act moment
- Why this administration is acting on wartime footing
- Bitcoin's surprisingly strong response to geopolitical chaos
- 10-year Treasury signals and what they mean for monetary policy
- Block's massive AI-driven layoffs and implications for the future
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - World War 3 is upon us
00:01:31 - Iran conflict through China strategy lens
00:06:06 - Energy as weapon against China
00:08:36 - Pentagon blacklists Anthropic: The AI power grab
00:11:24 - Sovereign is he who decides the model weights
00:13:44 - Pattern recognition: The AI Patriot Act moment
00:16:57 - Bitcoin's resilient weekend performance
00:19:39 - Ten year Treasury reaction signals trouble
00:22:52 - Block's AI layoffs: 40% workforce reduction
00:26:23 - Data centers overtake office construction
00:27:03 - High profit margins meet Bitcoin treasuries
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| 0:00.0 | John, World War's Free. It is upon us. Bombs are going off. Most people are unaware. We were just talking about this before we hit record in the land outside of X and the Internet. But yeah, crazy weekend. A lot to talk about. And I think it would make sense to start with the war in Iran and spreading throughout the Middle East right now and its implications |
| 0:22.9 | on the markets that we track and that touch Bitcoin. So you took some time this weekend to write |
| 0:29.4 | about fast takeoffs and hard landings for the timestamp. What are the last 72 hours? What are the |
| 0:35.2 | implications of what's happening right now in your mind? |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah. I mean, if anyone's familiar with the great movie airplane, it increasingly feels over |
| 0:43.8 | the last year like every week is the wrong week to have stopped sniffing glue, like the air |
| 0:48.1 | traffic controller constantly, constantly feeling that way. And I see all the people can see that |
| 0:56.6 | Marty has already migrated to greener pastures to write out the impending doom that we're all facing now. So that's probably something |
| 1:01.2 | I should have done. But yeah, it's crazy, crazy week among many crazy weeks. And I think it was |
| 1:09.2 | just an interesting set of headlines that came across the wire over the course of the week and tried to connect them a little bit in the timestamp this week at the risk of sounding or becoming a little too much like Charlie Day in front of the Peve-Sovia board. |
| 1:22.9 | It feels like there are some no worthy connections we can highlight. |
| 1:25.5 | But yeah, maybe just starting on whatever one's thinking about and talking about this morning |
| 1:29.2 | is the U.S. has not declared, but declared war on Iran. |
| 1:35.9 | And we are currently in the very early stages of some sort of regime change over there. |
| 1:42.7 | So I'm not going to comment on, you know, all the, |
| 1:44.9 | all the fog of war disqualifications and caveats certainly hold and, you know, not going to |
| 1:50.7 | comment on how any of it's going to go or our reports that we're getting out of there. But I think, |
| 1:55.8 | like one thing to pull out maybe as we sit here today that I was trying to highlight in the time stab is like |
| 2:01.6 | you've quickly you quickly saw over the course of this weekend once we got the announcement |
| 2:06.3 | on Saturday morning that this was happening, you know, a lot of takes on all different parts |
| 2:10.4 | of the political spectrum. |
| 2:11.4 | Generally I would say pretty universally, this is like not been a popular concept of like, you know, doing this in some |
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