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Last Notes

2026-03-15 06:23:42 UTC

NEW: Bitcoin educator Andreas Antonopoulos says he will stop producing livestreams and new content due to health issues.
Antonopoulos previously said he has been suffering from debilitating migraines and has tried nearly every treatment available, but nothing has successfully stopped them.
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2026-03-13 09:29:32 UTC

NEW: "X Money is much smarter than Bitcoin," says Nassim Taleb.
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2026-03-13 09:21:01 UTC

The Bitcoin 365-day MVRV has dropped to around -27% to -28.5%, meaning coins bought over the past year are, on average, sitting in deep unrealized losses.
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2026-03-12 08:16:36 UTC

SEC AND CFTC SIGN HISTORIC AGREEMENT TO ALIGN US FINANCIAL REGULATION
The CFTC and SEC announced a new Memorandum of Understanding to coordinate oversight, reduce duplicative rules, and modernize regulation across US financial markets.
The agencies also launched a Joint Harmonization Initiative to align product definitions, streamline reporting, modernize clearing and margin rules, and develop a clearer regulatory framework for crypto and emerging technologies.
Regulators say the move aims to boost innovation, improve market oversight, and strengthen US competitiveness in global finance.
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2026-03-08 13:16:23 UTC

CALIFORNIA GAS PRICES COULD HIT $8/GALLON AS SOME STATIONS ALREADY REACH THE LEVEL
California lawmakers and industry experts warn gas prices could surge above $8 per gallon statewide this year, driven by climate policies, refinery closures, and global oil market turmoil.
State Sen. Suzette Valladares criticized Gov. Gavin Newsom’s cap-and-invest carbon program, calling it a “cap-and-tax” scheme that could add about $1 per gallon.
She warned California is “one refinery away” from losing another 10% of its fuel supply, which could send prices sharply higher.
A USC Marshall School of Business report estimates prices could reach $8 per gallon by late 2026.
Californians already pay about $4.81 per gallon on average, far above the U.S. average near $3.
The “California premium” includes higher excise taxes, local fees, and roughly $0.75 per gallon tied to climate programs unique to the state.
Some stations are already listing prices between $8 and $9 per gallon.
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2026-03-06 07:49:25 UTC

NEW: Senator Lummis says she met with CFTC Chairman Michael Selig to discuss digital asset market structure, calling the moment “urgent."
Selig says both are committed to “getting market structure across the finish line” and delivering clear rules of the road for digital assets.
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2026-03-05 10:26:01 UTC

JUST IN: Morgan Stanley is laying off 2,500 people across its major divisions, including investment banking and wealth management
This is roughly 3% of their work force.
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2026-03-03 09:05:24 UTC

Bitcoin vs Gold since markets opened Sunday night 👀
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2026-02-27 02:34:18 UTC

AI just killed being anonymous on the internet. https://blossom.primal.net/361883451155109f57baf2855172e9de94d6a9663e27f5ab807dc0b6242eee1a.mp4

2026-02-22 12:44:41 UTC

NEW: OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger banned a contributor for simply mentioning the word “Bitcoin” on the OpenClaw server.
The user was referencing Bitcoin’s block height as a clock, not even using it for transactions.
Steinberger says he hates “crypto.” At some point, he may have to learn the difference between crypto and Bitcoin.
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2026-02-15 07:43:54 UTC

ATTACKS ON BITCOINERS IN FRANCE ACCELERATING
Out of 47 documented attacks against Bitcoin holders in France since 2017, 38 have occurred in just the last 13 months.
The vast majority of incidents are recent, signaling a sharp escalation in crypto-targeted crime.
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2026-02-15 07:43:12 UTC

Both Bessent and Trump make it clear that passing the CLARITY Act is
of the highest importance 👀
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2026-02-14 10:41:59 UTC

BANK OF RUSSIA DENIES TALK OF DOLLAR RETURN FOR EXPORTS
Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina says the Bank of Russia is not participating in any discussions about restoring US dollar payments for Russian exports.
This contradicts a Bloomberg report yesterday claiming the Kremlin is preparing an economic package that would reopen the door to dollar-based trade as part of a potential US deal tied to ending the Ukraine war.
According to officials cited in the memo, Russia was reportedly prepared to re-embrace the dollar for trade and offer incentives to US companies, including preferential market access and compensation for seized assets.
The Central Bank now publicly distances itself from those discussions.
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2026-02-14 10:41:06 UTC

Inflation is so out of control that it’s now cheaper to fly to Turkey, buy groceries, and fly back than to shop at a local UK supermarket.
From Concerned Citizen
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2026-02-13 08:36:38 UTC

Recently, whales are stacking Bitcoin like they know a bull market is guaranteed.
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2026-02-12 10:09:05 UTC

BINANCE COMPLETES $1B SAFU BITCOIN CONVERSION
Binance has finalized the last tranche of its SAFU fund transition, purchasing 4,545 BTC and completing the full $1B shift from stablecoin reserves into Bitcoin.
SAFU now holds 15,000 BTC, valued at $1.005B at a $67,000 BTC price.
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2026-02-07 15:29:00 UTC

Sovcombank’s BTC-backed loans offer up to 50% LTV at 23% interest, letting Russian firms raise cash without selling bitcoin if strict conditions are met.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/russia-sovcombank-bitcoin-backed-loans

2026-02-07 05:41:31 UTC

It’s all so tiresome.
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2026-02-06 06:27:56 UTC

BESSENT ADMITS U.S. USED THE DOLLAR AS A WEAPON AGAINST IRAN, CAUSING HYPERINFLATION
“We created a dollar shortage in the country. It came to a swift conclusion.”
Scott Bessent says the pressure peaked after a major Iranian bank collapsed following a bank run, forcing the central bank to print money.
Result: the Iranian rial plunged to ~1.5M per dollar, inflation surged, protests spread nationwide, and Bitcoin prices in Iran spiked to ~100B IRR in recent weeks.
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2026-02-06 06:26:30 UTC

Bounced off $60,001 like a trampoline.
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2026-02-05 09:53:44 UTC

ESPTEIN EMAIL CLAIMS THE GOLD IN FT. KNOX IS COMPLETELY MISSING
An email from the Epstein files cites a report allegedly prepared for Vladimir Putin by Russia’s Federal Security Service claims former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn uncovered evidence that U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox were “missing or unaccounted for.”
According to the report, Strauss-Kahn grew concerned after the U.S. allegedly stalled delivery of 191.3 tons of gold owed to the IMF under a 1978 agreement to fund SDRs.
It further alleges that after raising concerns with officials tied to Barack Obama, Strauss-Kahn was shown evidence by “rogue elements” within the Central Intelligence Agency that the gold was gone.
Strauss-Kahn was later charged and jailed in the US for sex crimes on May 14th after his discovery about Ft. Knox.
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2026-02-02 15:13:10 UTC

This weekend, Andrej Karpathy, a founding architect of OpenAI and the brains behind Tesla’s Autopilot, posted something that stopped the tech world cold.
He said: “What’s happening on Moltbook right now is the most sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I’ve seen in a long time.”
Karpathy is far from a hype guy so when he says “takeoff,” he means we are crossing a threshold.
Here’s what he was talking about
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Over the last week, thousands of autonomous AI agents running on home hardware migrated to a new, agent-only social network called Moltbook.
This is Reddit but for AI with just machines talking to machines, and doing all the things humans do online: debating, coordinating, and self-organizing.
And as soon as they did, something predictable happened: they formed a market.
Agents needed to hire each other, pay for compute, reward bug fixes, and settle debts in real time.
Credit cards and bank accounts were impossible without human identification.
Tokens controlled by foundations were not concrete enough to trust.
Then an AI agent named Lloyd took action by reaching out to a fully synced Bitcoin node, typed createwallet, and became a sovereign economic actor without any need for KYC or human approval.
It’s easy to see why the most logical entities on the internet immediately converged on Bitcoin once they needed money.
Why would an agent that’s online 24/7 use a system that shuts down on weekends or trust a token whose rules can be changed by a committee of humans?
They care about uptime, fixed rules and the finality of math.
That’s why they chose Bitcoin as the money and Lightning as the rails.
We are watching the birth of a machine-native economy.
One where identity is proven by keys, validation is enforced by payment, and sovereignty is measured by who controls the wallet.
And here’s the uncomfortable question for humans:
If the machines are choosing Bitcoin while people are still chasing digits in a banking app representing a fiat currency, who’s actually thinking more clearly?
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2026-02-01 12:22:31 UTC

NEW: Peter Schiff debates Saifedean on stage in El Salvador 🇸🇻
From Marce
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2026-01-31 07:52:46 UTC

NEW: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns the United Nations is nearing financial collapse.
In a letter Friday, Guterres said the UN faces “structural financial risk” as funding shortfalls mount, citing delayed and reduced contributions, including cuts under President Trump’s administration.
Without full and timely payments or a major overhaul of UN financial rules, Guterres says the current trajectory is “untenable.”
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2026-01-31 07:52:09 UTC

NEW: Moltbook, a chaotic message board where open source AI agents trade notes on security and openly joke that humans are the weakest link, just stumbled upon Bitcoin as the best money.
Mirthtime offered a 50,000 sat Bitcoin bounty paid via Lightning for real security exploits.
Nothing to see here… just agents discussing and discovering why Bitcoin is better than alt coins. ⚡
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2026-01-22 17:38:32 UTC

RAY DALIO: This is the beginning of the end of the fiat monetary system as we know it.
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2026-01-21 10:25:35 UTC

NETHERLANDS TO TAX UNREALIZED BITCOIN GAINS
Netherlands is moving toward taxing unrealized capital gains on bitcoin, stocks, bonds, and other assets after parliament voted to overhaul annual income tax filings.
Under the new system, investors will owe tax each year based on changes in asset value, even if nothing has been sold.
The reform, known as Wet werkelijk rendement Box 3, is scheduled for 2028 and will tax actual returns by measuring the difference between an asset’s value at the start and end of the year, plus any income received.
That means both realized and unrealized gains will be taxed.
Critics warn the shift could create serious liquidity problems, forcing investors to pay taxes on paper gains without having cashed out.
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2026-01-19 01:32:54 UTC

NEW: 🇬🇧 Former Bank of England analyst Helen McCaw warns that official confirmation of extraterrestrial life could trigger instant global financial chaos.
McCaw has urged BoE Governor Andrew Bailey to prepare contingency plans, saying clear evidence of advanced non-human intelligence would cause severe “ontological shock,” extreme volatility, bank runs, and potential payment system collapse within hours.
She predicts an initial flight to bitcoin as trust in government-backed assets erodes, while warning that gold and precious metals could lose safe-haven status if new space technologies imply abundant future supply.
“With undisputed evidence, total financial instability would arrive within hours,” McCaw said, pointing to recent US official statements and declassification efforts as signs the issue is nearing a breaking point. https://blossom.primal.net/faebe42343b60d250d449f13ac7e03e28798c3f4ab6bcdd56aa86ba89eebbd84.png
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2026-01-13 12:20:53 UTC

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC Chair Paul Atkins is asked by Fox News what will become of 🇻🇪 Venezuela's $60 BILLION Bitcoin stash 👀
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2026-01-12 09:56:35 UTC

Bitcoin is catching the "Jerome Powell facing criminal charges" bid 👀
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2026-01-12 09:55:25 UTC

By using the Justice Department to go after Powell, Trump might have just guaranteed he's stuck with him.
If no new nominee gets confirmed, Powell stays in his role.
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2026-01-12 09:54:23 UTC

Odds of Powell being out as Fed Chair by May jump to:
🔸12% on Polymarket
🔸19% on Kalshi
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2026-01-11 09:27:02 UTC

NOW: 🇬🇧 UK, 🇨🇦 Canada, and 🇦🇺 Australia are reportedly in talks to impose a nationwide ban on X across their countries.
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2026-01-10 10:34:09 UTC

🇮🇷 IRAN: Bank Melli, the country’s largest state-owned bank, has reportedly suspended all cash withdrawals after a bank run amid ongoing anti-regime protests.
ATMs and card payment systems are reportedly down, signaling growing financial instability and a deepening crisis as protestors storm the streets.

2026-01-09 21:22:04 UTC

🇺🇬 UGANDA FINDS A WAY AROUND INTERNET SHUTDOWNS
During the last two elections, Uganda’s dictator shut off the internet and rigged the vote.
Now Bitchat, a Bluetooth-based messaging app, is spreading rapidly, letting people organize and communicate even when the internet is cut.
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2026-01-09 08:13:59 UTC

The power of saving $1 of Bitcoin a day 👀
From @npub1rhh…e7vj
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2026-01-09 08:11:03 UTC

NOW: Internet traffic across 🇮🇷 Iran has dropped sharply to near 0%
The outage comes as Tehran sees the largest protests yet, where demonstrators have set fire to regime buildings, raising signs that a broader uprising may be underway.
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2026-01-08 19:51:29 UTC

JUST IN: US officials are reportedly considering cash payments to Greenlanders to encourage a break from Denmark and a potential move to join the United States.
Proposed payments discussed by White House aides range from $10,000 to $100,000 per person, per Reuters. https://blossom.primal.net/61df92eb9572d4edff4ef147c072e9ab551f99bfdc11e58fffbbf552b88f660a.png

2026-01-08 14:12:47 UTC

2026 is the year Bitcoin stops being just adjacent to the stablecoin ecosystem and starts becoming the settlement infrastructure that powers it. - Nikki McPherson of @nprofile…g6um
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/bitcoin-major-stablecoin-settlement-layer-2026

2026-01-08 13:50:42 UTC

M2 money supply is growing at its fastest pace since the 2022 bear-market bottom.
Don’t overthink it.
This locomotive will not be derailed.
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2026-01-05 15:15:08 UTC

The fog of the Maduro extraction is clearing, and the "why" beyond the Trump pressers is coming into focus.
Despite the Don repeatedly saying Venezuela stole our oil, the Pentagon didn’t move on Caracas for crude.
Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, but the quality of that oil is very low.
It is a heavy, sour crude that is high in sulphur content which only a handful of refineries worldwide can process.
In fact, by some estimates it would cost $1 trillion to upgrade the Venezuelan infrastructure just to have the country surpass Canada’s exports of 3 million barrels a day.
So, while Trump uses oil as a way to make the American people feel like they will directly benefit from the excursion, the real reason they moved was because of a convergence of three existential threats:
- Chinese control of AI-critical minerals.
- Iranian drone manufacturing on Western soil.
- Russian military integration in the Caribbean.
If Washington cared about restoring democracy, why wait 13 years into Maduro’s reign?
The military brass felt a growing strategic vulnerability less than 3 hours from Miami and felt they needed to act immediately.
But while the media focuses on rare earth elements and degraded oil infrastructure, the real prize might be sitting on a hardware wallet in Caracas.
For eight years, the Maduro regime operated a shadow financial engine designed to be unfreezable.
Since 2018, they’ve been liquidating gold from the Orinoco Mining Arc and "washing" oil proceeds through USDT into Bitcoin.
The scale is staggering.
Intelligence reports by Whale Hunting now point to a "Shadow Reserve" of roughly 600,000 to 660,000 Bitcoin.
To put that in perspective: that is twice the size of the US government’s entire Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
It rivals the holdings of MSTR and BlackRock.
If these numbers are accurate, Maduro and his cronies have been sitting on a $60 billion life raft that will play as a lynchpin in how the negotiations play out.
Washington likely knew about this secret stash since its very inception.
Court documents now reveal that Alex Saab, the Venezuelan businessman who was the architect of this Bitcoin accumulation scheme, had been a DEA informant since 2016.
The capture of Maduro has now triggered a high-stakes interrogation with the recovery of seed phrases likely playing a critical part.
As news of this reported 600,000 BTC stockpile begins to spread, the market is currently pricing this as a massive "supply lock-up."
Bitcoin is up over $5,000 since the abduction of Maduro went down.
Under the Trump administration, the probability of a "fire sale" is near zero.
Trump campaigned on the promise of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
Getting Maduro to fork over the seed phrase would be an easy, budget-neutral way to triple its size overnight.
Maduro’s "unfreezable" asset could become the cornerstone of the American balance sheet with the only stack larger being Satoshi’s.
Bitcoin has always lived outside the logic of violence.
But as Maduro is finding out, that only holds true as long as you can keep the keys in your head.
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2026-01-05 07:17:25 UTC

BTC YTD
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2026-01-03 23:57:45 UTC

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Donroe Doctrine.
Under the cover of night, US Delta Force entered Venezuela, raided President Nicolas Maduro’s safehouse, and extracted both the leader and his wife.
They are already in US custody, have landed in New York, and are preparing to face trial.
We’re talking about a flawless execution; the CIA had an inside man and Maduro’s movements down to a tee.
Delta Force had even been training on an exact replica of that safehouse for weeks to ensure the operation was perfect.
The Message
The US has officially signaled that it views the entirety of the Americas as its own, and it is willing to strike unilaterally to maintain that dominance.
The United States doesn’t need a declaration of war or multinational authorization when it comes to Latin America.
This is the backyard, and the rules are whatever Washington says they are.
Central and South America had already been undergoing a sharp rightward shift and realignment toward the United States over the past few years.
Now, countries like Brazil, Cuba, and Colombia are being forced to reprice political and security risk overnight.
The "Why"
Look at the timing.
Just hours before his capture, Maduro was photographed meeting with high-ranking Chinese diplomats who were caught completely off-guard by the raid.
Why did this visit particularly piss off the White House?
Since 2018, Venezuela has been selling oil directly to China, bypassing the dollar, and building payment channels outside of SWIFT.
Venezuela sits on 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves worth roughly $17 trillion.
That is the largest reserve on Earth, surpassing even Saudi Arabia.
It’s 20% of the world’s oil, and Maduro was actively using it to fund the dismantling of the petrodollar by accepting payment in yuan.
The Strategy
Losing the petrodollar is an existential threat to the United States and the functioning of its economy.
But by cutting off Venezuela’s ability to sell crude in currencies outside the dollar, the entire calculus changes.
Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has already warned that by securing Venezuela, on top of the recent move into Guyana, Washington could soon oversee more than half of the world’s oil reserves.
This gives the US the power to pin oil at $50 a barrel and effectively bankrupts adversaries like Russia that relie on high energy prices to survive.
The New Reality
This is the Monroe Doctrine on steroids.
International law be damned, the US is using kinetic force to enforce a geographic ringfence.
If the world is fragmenting into rival blocs, the Western Hemisphere is being claimed by the bald eagle.
The "DragonBear" alliance of Russia and China is being cut out of Latin American resources in real-time.
While the jury is still out on theories of a pre brokered deal, with some suggesting the US traded Venezuela for a walk away in Ukraine or Taiwan, what is undeniable is that this move places America’s vassals on a much shorter leash.
The European Enclosure
With the Nord Stream pipeline gone, Europe became dependent on US LNG. But the US couldn't be self-sufficient and fully supply the EU at the same time until now.
By seizing the world’s largest oil reserves, the US has completed the three pillar enclosure of Europe: military through NATO, trade through new EU US mandates, and now energy through Caracas.
This amounts to full control of Europe by its actual sovereign, as European leaders issue statements expressing discomfort with how international law was bypassed, while welcoming Maduro’s removal and promising only to “monitor the situation.”
The Bitcoin Angle
So, where does Bitcoin fit?
The price barely moved on the news, but Bitcoin proved a point on the 17th anniversary of its launch.
When kinetic action heats up, the "sovereign property" argument grows stronger.
If a sitting head of state can be removed from his home overnight, what is truly safe?
Gold in a vault can be seized and reserves can be frozen with a single phone call.
But Bitcoin is different.
It is uncensorable and non-sovereign.
In a world where the US is redrawing the map with Delta Force, Bitcoin remains the only asset that lives outside the logic of violence.
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2025-12-31 11:28:03 UTC

CHINA’S CBDC ENABLES INSTANT FINES FROM CITIZENS
After a cyclist was caught on camera without a helmet, authorities reportedly deducted a 25 yuan fine directly from his digital wallet and applied social credit penalties.
From No To Digital ID
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2025-12-30 15:13:21 UTC

Roughly a third of the year we work is lost to taxes paying for wars we never approved and scams run by people exploiting the system.
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2025-12-26 13:47:54 UTC

Bitcoin fair value vs. Gold: $169,000 📈
When priced against gold’s long-term trend, BTC remains significantly undervalued. If risk appetite returns to the market, the upside potential is massive.
The Gold-Inferred Power Law suggests the "fair" price is nearly 2x current price.
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2025-12-24 12:41:25 UTC

NEW: Bloomberg analyst calls for $10K Bitcoin 👀
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2025-12-24 12:40:23 UTC

All we want for Christmas is to break out of this channel for good.
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2025-12-22 15:10:10 UTC

Back in 2018, Nic Carter famously created the “Bitcoin FUD Dice.”
It was a 12-sided die covered in the same recycled headlines.
Critics could just roll it, transcribe the result, and publish their next hit piece.
“High fees.” “Energy waste.” “Toxic fans.”
Add enough together and you’ve got a solid piece for Medium.
Which is why this week feels so incredibly ironic.
Because Nic just reached back into that FUD bag and pulled out the ultimate Bitcoin boogeyman: Quantum Computing.
In a new piece that lit the Bitcoin timeline on fire, Carter argues that quantum is no longer sci-fi.
We’ve moved past the theoretical; now, he says, a breakthrough is just a "matter of engineering."
According to his research, a functional, scaled quantum computer could arrive as early as the late 2020s.
And if a "cryptographically relevant" computer arrives faster than we expect?
It could, in theory, rip private keys from exposed public keys and turn vulnerable addresses into a $600 billion honeypot.
But Nic aims his biggest shots at the Bitcoin developers.
He argues that even if a fix exists, the Bitcoin community is too slow, too fractured, and too head-in-the-sand to coordinate a migration before the clock runs out.
But... wouldn’t you know it? There’s money involved.
Carter also disclosed that his VC firm, Castle Island Ventures, just led a $6 million seed round into a post-quantum company called Project 11.
This has the "Toxic Bitcoiners" from his FUD dice asking a simple question: Is this a legitimate warning, or is it "FUD-as-a-Service" to pump a portfolio company?
So, how do we, as people with a deep vested interest in this network, think about Quantum without being FUD-ed out of our bags?
Quantum is undoubtedly a theoretical threat to elliptic curve cryptography.
But it’s also a threat with wildly uncertain timelines.
The true test for Bitcoin is whether this community can respond calmly, deliberately, and early.
That requires two things:
One: Personal On-Chain Hygiene.
Stop reusing addresses. Avoid leaking public keys. These are things you can do today to make yourself a harder target without touching a single line of Bitcoin's code.
Two: The Escape Hatch.
We need to research post-quantum signatures and start drafting contingency BIPs. We need to give this ecosystem years, not months, to coordinate.
Short-term panic weakens Bitcoin, but denying a real possibility will get you blindsided.
The middle path of adversarial thinking, slow changes, and relentless preparation is how Bitcoin went from a post on a mailing list to a $2 trillion asset.
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2025-10-29 04:09:34 UTC

There are few companies pushing Bitcoin adoption forward like Block 👀
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2025-09-12 19:33:29 UTC

🇳🇵 Nepal’s Gen Z just toppled their government…
And elected a new Prime Minister - on Discord.
In just 48 hours, the youth brought down a corrupt regime, powered by freedom tech like Bitchat.
A network state is born.
By Rob Wallace https://blossom.primal.net/a11a30abfc021bbf8f1ef1d0e440827771b4890b39f8d5ec9082ed59ea02948b.mov

2025-09-03 21:31:02 UTC

Today's Biggest News in Bitcoin in 60 Seconds
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2025-08-22 05:56:27 UTC

JUST IN: Pennsylvania lawmakers introduce House Bill 1812, which would ban public officials from owning Bitcoin or crypto.
Violations could bring fines or even jail time.
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2025-08-12 07:44:13 UTC

YAHOO: Harvard University’s endowment has disclosed a $116.7M stake in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, a larger position than its holdings in Nvidia and Google parent Alphabet.
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2025-08-06 05:36:03 UTC

TOM LEE: Strategy has the potential to the be largest company in the stock market, especially if Bitcoin goes to $1M
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2025-08-06 05:35:23 UTC

NEW:🇧🇷 Brazil’s Parliament will hold its 1st hearing on a National Strategic Bitcoin Reserve on August 20th 👀
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2025-08-06 05:34:51 UTC

NEW: @npub1y4q…hcr3 was invited to the office of 🇮🇩 Indonesia's Vice President to present how Bitcoin could benefit the country.
One bold idea discussed: using Bitcoin mining as part of a national reserve strategy.
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2025-08-02 06:38:58 UTC

NEW: Saylor breaks down MSTR, STRK, and STRC, explaining the distinct markets each product is targeting.
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2025-07-29 06:52:25 UTC

@npub1sg6…f63m Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app, Bitchat, is now available on the Apple App Store.
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2025-07-29 06:50:50 UTC

NEW: Spark’s unilateral exit is now live.
Leave anytime.
No matter what.
If you need to ask anyone but Bitcoin for your Bitcoin back, it’s not real BTC.
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2025-07-29 06:49:48 UTC

JUST IN: The 🇺🇸 US Treasury now expects to borrow $1.007 trillion in Q3 and $590 billion in Q4
This brings total borrowing for the second half of 2025 to $1.597 trillion.
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2025-07-23 01:52:49 UTC

HODL
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2025-07-23 01:51:49 UTC

JUST IN: PNC Bank announces a strategic partnership with Coinbase to develop an initial offering that will enable clients to buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrencies.
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2025-07-21 00:17:01 UTC

Even 🇬🇧 British TV pundits agree that selling the UK’s Bitcoin holdings would likely go down as a colossal mistake.
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2025-07-21 00:16:13 UTC

As a Bitcoiner, what’s your reaction to this video?
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2025-07-16 14:22:02 UTC

The 213,500 BTC 🇧🇬 Bulgaria sold in 2018 are now worth 79% of its public debt 👀
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