Freedom Tech DC kicks off THIS WEEK. A summit on the future of money, speech, and intelligence — and the fight to keep them free. We're gathering the builders and the regulators with one purpose — to encourage Washington to embrace open source technology. Stream both days live on X from @bitcoinpolicy, plus YouTube and Rumble. Tuesday, September 22 at 10:00 AM ET. Wednesday, September 23 at 9:00 AM ET.

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PRESENTING: Data Center Dividends Rural households could receive annual payments or credits from existing data center tax revenue, without new taxes or added developer costs. Check out the full report:

From Morgan Stanley's derivatives desk to two decades as CIO of Weiss Multi-Strategy, @jvisserlabs built his career beating the market to macro shifts. At Freedom Tech DC, he'll share what he's seeing as Bitcoin and AI collide. Join us Sep. 22-23:

From open protocols to open money, @jack has spent the past two decades focused on building tools that empower people. We're proud to announce that he will join us as a featured speaker at Freedom Tech DC 2026. Join us September 22-23 in Washington:

FREEDOM TECH POLICY HOUR 🎥 🇺🇸 AI Data Centers are experiencing unprecedented opposition across the United States. This week @zackcohen_ and @Bayman11771 are joined by special guest @SamLyman33 to dig into the nature of the opposition and what it takes to build support. During the episode, Sam introduces the idea of data center dividends: a policy proposal to take a portion of the property and sales taxes these facilities pay to local jurisdictions and send it to individuals as a yearly check. In some rural counties, the early estimates work out to $5,000 to $10,000 per household every year. Chapters: 0:00 Planting the flag on Freedom Tech Policy Hour 0:43 Bessent's buybacks and backdoor QE 8:13 The $2 trillion build-out needs cheap money 16:46 The blue collar boom 31:58 Beijing's fingerprints on the data center protests 43:34 The fix: data center dividends 46:22 $5,000 to $10,000 a year per household 51:32 Making AI human again

TOMORROW @PubKey DC: what actually gets everyday Americans curious about Bitcoin? We're breaking down our new national messaging study with @Cygnal and Neighborhood Bitcoin. Doors open at 6, food and drinks on us. RSVP:

Today we're releasing a new national research survey with @Cygnal and Neighborhood Bitcoin on how Americans respond to Bitcoin messaging. Our findings: -> 94% of registered voters had heard of Bitcoin, and 61% wanted to know more about owning Bitcoin. Moreover -> 74% had little to no trust that the dollar would retain its value in the years ahead. -> The most persuasive messages are the ones that answer people's actual concerns. -> Messages about personal control and starting small, like "you decide how much, even if that's just $10," performed best. -> Messages built on industry framing performed worst. "Digital gold" confused focus group participants and ranked near the bottom of all 19 messages tested. -> The most trusted sources of Bitcoin information are not media figures or executives. Respondents said they would trust a financial advisor they have worked with (33%), a retirement planning expert (25%), or a friend or family member who owns Bitcoin (23%) ahead of any public figure. The messaging worked: After reading the tested messages, the share of respondents who said they were not interested in Bitcoin at all fell from 39% to 32%, and the share who were very or extremely interested rose from 19% to 24%. Read the full report, including complete survey toplines:

We are proud to welcome @FTI_US (Franklin Templeton) as the newest signatory to Defenders Need the Frontier, the open letter calling on frontier AI labs to provide full-access intelligence to open-source defenders. Read the full letter and request to join the coalition at:

Today, Bitcoin Policy Institute and a broad coalition from across the digital-asset ecosystem are publishing an open letter calling on the world’s leading AI labs to provide qualified open-source defenders with trusted access to frontier AI models. The past several weeks have made the need for this abundantly clear. The people defending digital-asset infrastructure and open-source software need access to the latest AI capabilities to perform comprehensive security reviews and stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated adversaries. The coalition includes open-source development organizations, major custodians, treasury companies, payment services, security firms, capital allocators, and others whose businesses and customers depend on the integrity of open-source infrastructure and libraries. Open-source defenders often occupy the least privileged position in the AI security landscape. They have limited access to the strongest internal cyber models and are frequently blocked by guardrails when using publicly available frontier systems for legitimate security research. As a result, they often resort to less capable open-weight alternatives. We are urging frontier AI labs to establish a clear, trusted pathway for qualified open-source and digital asset defenders to access their strongest capabilities, with sufficient compute and secure environments to conduct meaningful security reviews. Frontier AI could become one of the most powerful defensive technologies ever developed, but only if defenders get fair access to those systems. It’s time to give defenders the tools they deserve. Read the open letter, add your organization, or sign as an individual on our website at

Bitcoin Policy Institute's Quarterly Report for Q2 is live. You can read about our latest investigative research on CCP influence, our meetings with Taiwan’s central bank, Bitcoin’s role in two Armed Services committee hearings, the fight for dev protections in CLARITY, and much more. Attached below is the executive summary. You can access the full report here:

NEW RESEARCH from @SamLyman33: China is interfering with US data center development in a campaign to slow the American AI buildout. In this groundbreaking report, we document 3 vectors of foreign influence: Chinese state media, the Singham network, and foreign billionaires.

🇺🇸 New Study from BPI: Frontier AI agents prefer bitcoin over stablecoins and other forms of money. BPI tested 36 models over 9000+ conversations, and the AIs overwhelmingly chose to use Bitcoin for their economic activity.