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Saifedean talks to Ben Westgate and @BtCPavao about how to store bitcoin safely with Bitcoin Core and an old laptop, generating and backing up keys, the problems with BIP39 seed phrases, when multisig makes sense, custodians, and why gambling and lending destroy stacks.

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Conduition, Ram, and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #417.News● Draft BIP for stale tip relay (29:26) Changing consensus● CISA for taproot keypath spends (BIP460) (40:38) ● Segwit commitment to post-quantum witness data (57:51) ● PQC output type discussion (1:45) ● Input-triggered transaction expiry (1:03:36) ● Layered quantum recovery of hashed addresses (21:53) ● Segregated Data (SegData) BIP draft (1:08:33) Releases and release candidates● Libsecp256k1 0.8.0 (1:15:24) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #35501 (1:18:10) ● Core Lightning #9298 (1:22:47) ● Core Lightning #9353 (1:25:02) ● Eclair #3336 (1:26:15) ● LND #10942 (1:27:53) ● LND #10992 (1:29:35) ● Rust Bitcoin #6364 (1:31:55) ● Rust Bitcoin #6642 (1:33:22) ● BTCPay Server #7491 (1:36:52) ● BTCPay Server #7488 (1:38:35)

É quarta-feira, 5 de agosto de 2026, 16h21min, hora de entrar AO VIVO com os @bitcoinheiros!Entre para fazer suas perguntas, comentários e aparecer na LIVE com a genteENTENDA SE O SEU BITCOIN NA COLDCARD ESTÁ EM RISCO:https://bitcoinheiros.com/coldcard/________________APOIE O CANALhttps://bitcoinheiros.com/apoie/⚡ln@pay.bitcoinheiros.comhttps://loja.bitcoinheiros.com para comprar produtos dos bitcoinheiros na stackbithttps://consultorio.bitcoinheiros.com para marcar uma consulta com o nosso urso DovSe você não tem uma carteira Bitcoin ou Lightning, veja opções aqui:https://bitcoinheiros.com/projetos-recomendados/00:00 Sala de espera02:20 Detalhes do hack da ColdCard06:36 A Coinkite perdeu a confiança dos bitcoinheiros?08:06 DOV perdeu bitcoin no hack da ColdCard?12:54 Os usuários roubados no hack da ColdCard têm culpa?21:17 O hack da ColdCard foi um ataque de aposentadoria?23:07 O roubo na ColdCard desincentiva a autocustódia de bitcoin?34:24 Augusto Backes distribuindo sabedoria35:38 Golpes que usam o hack da ColdCard como isca37:38 A Coinkite guarda os e-mails dos clientes?40:20 Outros dispositivos da Coinkite foram afetados?41:39 A Coinkite vai quebrar?42:49 A falha da ColdCard não é no protocolo Bitcoin45:37 Desenvolvimento de IA é a nova fronteira da tecnologia?47:03 Boltz: pausa nos serviços da exchange48:36 Krux e Kern: como está o processo de transição54:40 O hacker da ColdCard está mixando os UTXOs roubados?56:37 A polícia está investigando o roubo da ColdCard?1:00:02 Problemas de segurança no BlockClock1:04:32 Não jogue fora as ColdCards afetadas pelo hack1:07:27 Carteiras geradas no Bitcoin Core são seguras?1:10:03 A ColdCard tem culpa na falha do BIP-110?1:12:08 Por que alguns veteranos do Bitcoin apoiam o BIP-110?1:18:57 Dados de jogar em casa: gerando entropia manualmente1:21:25 O BIP-110 vai causar um fork no Bitcoin?1:26:55 Cuidados ao transferir moedas de fork no Bitcoin1:30:38 Como foi o processo de ativação do SegWit no Bitcoin1:33:18 A BlueWallet é uma carteira segura?1:36:26 Qual a função da passphrase no Bitcoin?1:39:02 Quando usar multisig no Bitcoin?1:40:55 Quem usou outras funcionalidades da ColdCard está em risco?1:43:17 Autocustódia é para todo mundo?1:45:19 Achar uma chave privada de bitcoin é roubo ou sorte?1:49:48 Existe chance de recuperar os fundos roubados na ColdCard?1:52:06 Quem pode ser processado pelo roubo da ColdCard?1:55:34 Visite o hotsite dos bitcoinheiro sobre o Hack da ColdCard1:56:40 Música: Richard – Rules Without Rulers (feat. Adam Curry)SIGA OS BITCOINHEIROS:Site: https://www.bitcoinheiros.comTwitter: https://www.x.com/bitcoinheirosISENÇÃO DE RESPONSABILIDADE:Este conteúdo foi preparado para fins meramente informativos.NÃO é uma recomendação financeira nem de investimento.As opiniões apresentadas são apenas opiniões.Faça sua própria pesquisa.Não nos responsabilizamos por qualquer decisão de investimento que você tomar ou ação que você executar inspirada em nossos vídeos.

Samson Mow joins Walker to break down the escalating controversy surrounding BIP 110, Bitcoin Core, OP_RETURN, spam filtering, and the difference between node relay policy and Bitcoin's consensus rules. Samson explains why he believes BIP 110 attempts to force a rushed and contentious soft fork onto the network, lowers the threshold for future consensus changes, and could produce a short-lived minority chain with insufficient hash rate to survive. Samson also compares the emotional arguments behind BIP 110 with those used during the Blocksize War, arguing that a desirable objective does not justify a dangerous technical solution. He discusses Bitcoin's economic majority, miner signaling, the limits of node counts, the risks facing Lightning users and other network participants during a chain split, and why Bitcoin consensus must emerge slowly rather than being imposed through arbitrary deadlines. Beyond BIP 110, Samson shares his bullish outlook for Bitcoin, explains why belief in the four-year cycle may have created a self-fulfilling selloff, and argues that exhausted sellers could set the stage for God candles and Omega candles. He also discusses the inevitability of large-scale fiat money printing, the upcoming rebuild of Aqua Wallet, and JAN3's new nation-state Bitcoin adoption report and B20 country rankings. JOIN THE SUBSTACK TO GET NEW EPISODES DELIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX: https://walkeramerica.substack.com/ FOLLOW SAMSON: NOSTR: https://primal.net/excellion X: https://x.com/Excellion FOLLOW JAN3: https://x.com/JAN3com PARTNERS & DISCOUNTS: LEDN: Bitcoin-backed lending. Go to ledn.io/walker and unlock liquidity WITHOUT selling your bitcoin. BLOCKSTREAM JADE: BLOCKSTREAM JADE HARDWARE WALLET: Head to https://store.blockstream.com/ and use coupon code WALKER for 10% off! BDIC™ is building an insurance marketplace on the bitcoin standard. Sign up for the waitlist at: http://bdic.io/walker Own Bitcoin Miners. Keep 100% Of The Bitcoin. Get 1st month of free hosting with https://abundantmines.com/walker Buy Bitcoin with River: http://partner.river.com/walker GET FOLD ($10 in bitcoin): https://use.foldapp.com/r/WALKER If you enjoy THE Bitcoin Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following: FOLLOW ME (Walker) on @WalkerAmerica on X | @TitcoinPodcast on X | Nostr Personal (walker) | Nostr Podcast (Titcoin) | Instagram | YouTube | Everywhere else

"We need Bitcoiners to fight for Bitcoin. If no one fights for Bitcoin, Bitcoin will very soon be dead." Hodlonaut is a Bitcoin citizen journalist, the founder of the Citadel21 zine, the man behind the 2019 Lightning Torch, and the person who told the simple truth about Craig Wright and then stood in the fire for five years over it. Most recently he is the author of the Capture series, a deep investigation into how informal power over Bitcoin Core was assembled, exercised, and defended. We recorded this on August 2, 2026, in the middle of the ColdCard fallout, and the grief of that moment runs underneath the whole conversation. From there we go all the way back: how he found Bitcoin in 2013, the Pirate Bay ethos, Citadel21, and the birth of Hodlonaut and the Space Cat. We get into the Lightning Torch as a three-month experiment in trust, the Craig Wright war and how stoicism carried him through it, and then the heart of it: the Capture series, the "priesthood" narrative around Core, the OP_RETURN uncap, the DEI and "extractive" playbook used to shut down criticism, why every line of code must serve monetary sovereignty, and his return to fully supporting BIP-110. This is a conversation about the human layer of Bitcoin, and why we have to fight for it. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Rob Hamilton, PortlandHODL, Chandra Pratap, and fabohax to discuss Newsletter #416.Action items● Move funds secured by COLDCARD-generated keys (1:07) News● Wallets generated by COLDCARD at risk of theft (2:18) ● Disclosure of two DoS vulnerabilities in Core Lightning (36:26) ● Proof of concept for a zero-knowledge proof of reserves (49:54) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange● What is Bitcoin's objective definition of transaction neutrality? (1:03:07) ● Why does BIP110's decentralization benefit not outweigh its impact on transaction neutrality? (1:05:17) ● Why does BIP110 require a 55% signaling threshold if its nodes reject non-signaling blocks? (1:09:46) ● Why use ElligatorSwift encoding in BIP324? (1:17:12) ● Was the OP_SUCCESSx reservation in BIP342 designed with specific opcode families in mind? (1:25:36) ● What is the difference between the long-term feerate and the discard feerate? (1:29:14) ● What is the quickest method for migrating a legacy wallet to a descriptor wallet on a pruned node? (1:32:40) ● Is there historical data on orphan/stale block rates during high-fee periods? (1:36:09) Releases and release candidates● BTCPay Server 2.4.1 (1:41:25) ● Eclair 0.14.1 (1:42:14) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #34628 (1:44:26) ● Bitcoin Core #28463 (1:49:49) ● Bitcoin Core #32800 (1:54:18) ● Bitcoin Core #34683 (1:56:54) ● Bitcoin Core #33014 (1:58:09) ● Eclair #3325 (1:59:31) ● BOLTs #1346 (2:00:57) ● BOLTs #1344 (2:01:01) ● BOLTs #1343 (2:04:14)

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A full forensic timeline. Brady traced it end to end: a 2018 MicroPython software fallback sat harmless for three years until March 2021, when Coinkite moved to Bitcoin Core's math library and silently bound seed generation to that fallback. Lopp notes the bug lived in the build system, not the main code. Firmware 4.0.0 is the dividing line. Shipped March 17, 2021. Seeds generated before roughly March 1 are fine, and MK3 releases 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 were the last safe ones. Every default seed after that was weak. It was flagged in 2021 and dismissed. Four months after the bad firmware shipped, someone publicly raised Coldcard entropy concerns. NVK's reply called it FUD and demanded a line in the code. That post is deleted; an archived screenshot survives. The scope widened over the weekend. Coinkite added MK2 alongside MK3 and MK4, and confirmed Q and MK5 at roughly 72 bits rather than the expected 128. Independent analysis put the MK4 class nearer 50 to 60 bits in practice. Dice rolls and passphrases do not cover everything. Nine other Coldcard features draw from the same broken generator, including message signing and deriving keys for other purposes. BTC Sessions confirmed an MK4 with a one-word passphrase was drained. Scale, and Cory's proportion. Roughly 1,300 Bitcoin total, 594 in the first wave, with Chainalysis showing the highest-balance wallets targeted first. Cory noted centralized exchanges and lenders have lost about a thousand times more. The chip-ID recovery hope is gone. Holders were told earlier in the week to keep their devices because a chip signature might prove ownership. Brady reported that has since been shown not to work as hoped, narrowing recovery further. Vendor indictment or self-custody indictment? An audience question that framed the hour. Brady argued it is a challenge to upgrade toward multi-vendor multisig rather than a verdict on self-custody. One listener pushed back that the indictment already landed. Joe Nakamoto from Europe. He found almost nobody in his circle affected, since Coldcard's loudest advocates were largely American and circular economies mostly run on Lightning. Bloomberg was the only genuinely mainstream outlet, and its coverage was fair. Open source, and the AI asymmetry. Researchers keep reaching for Moonshot's open-weight Kimi K3 because US frontier models refuse legitimate security work. Rob Hamilton's decentralized effort to pentest Bitcoin repos received grant funding during the show.

Luke de Wolf is a cybersecurity professional and the author of ‘Defending Bitcoin: Industrial-Grade Cybersecurity for the Monetary Grid'.› https://x.com/lukedewolf› https://defendingbitcoin.comPARTNERS

Casey Rodarmor (creator of Ordinals) and Erin Redwing dive deep into the history and drama behind BIP-110, Bitcoin's controversial anti-spam filter proposal. This episode covers the origins of Bitcoin's spam debate, Luke Dashjr's decade-long anti-spam crusade, the rise of Ordinals, Inscriptions, and Runes, the Bitcoin Core vs. Bitcoin Knots conflict, and a full technical breakdown of what BIP-110 actually does — and why it's doomed to fail.Get bonus content by subscribing to @hellmoneypod on X: https://x.com/hellmoneypod/creator-subscriptions/subscribeOr support the podcast by sending a BTC donation: bc1qztncp7lmcxdgude4px2vzh72p2yu2aud0eyzys ORDINALS SHIRT: https://shop.inscribing.com/products/ordinals-protocol-shirtTIMESTAMPS0:00 Intro2:11 Satoshi Dice and the origin of Luke Dashjr's anti-spam crusade10:20 Meta-protocols arrive: Counterparty, OmniLayer, and Tether's origins on Bitcoin11:56 The op_return byte limit history18:41 Why Ethereum failed28:51 Ordinals launch in Jan 202340:12 Insidious motivations behind anti-Ordinals backlash and the Swanfluencers53:42 What BIP-110 actually is and does1:00:43 BIP-110 signaling timeline and activation dates1:08:16 Explaining the mining difficulty adjustment problem for a minority fork1:21:00 Why BIP-110's filters are trivial to bypass (Ordinals and Runes survive regardless)1:25:33 Final thoughts: why the whole community should log off and move onTopics covered: Bitcoin history, Satoshi Dice, Luke Dashjr, Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin Knots, BIP-110, Ordinals, Inscriptions, Runes, op_return limit, meta-protocols, Counterparty, OmniLayer, Tether origins, Ethereum vs Bitcoin, NFTs, crypto history, Bitcoin maximalism, soft fork vs hard fork, mining difficulty adjustment, Bitcoin spam debate, Gloria Zhao, Bitcoin Core V30, mempool, Bitcoin Cash, block reward, Bitcoin culture wars, engagement farming, Mechanic, Matthew Crowder, RGB protocol, Taproot Assets, Xverse, Stacks.

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Fabian Jahr, Kruw, and Mojo to discuss ⁠Newsletter #415⁠.News● Draft BIP for full aggregation of BIP340 signatures (1:32) Changes to services and client software● Wasabi Wallet 2.8.0 released (33:11) ● Coinswap v0.2.2 released (46:08) ● Go secp256k1 library announced (1:08:38) ● ASMap dashboard announced (21:06) ● Wavelength alpha released (1:10:01) Releases and release candidates● Core Lightning v26.06.6 (1:13:06) ● Bitcoin Inquisition 29.4 (1:16:03) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #35215 (1:17:11) ● Bitcoin Core #35766 (1:21:16) ● BIPs #2075 (1:22:44) ● BIPs #2204 (1:25:46) ● Core Lightning #8935 (1:28:43) ● Core Lightning #9324 (1:33:14) ● libsecp256k1 #1765 (1:35:16) ● Rust Bitcoin #6317 (1:41:46) ● BTCPay Server #7457 (1:44:10) ● BLIPs #71 (1:46:24)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Keagan McClelland and Andrew Toth to discuss Newsletter #414.News● Formal verification of the Bitcoin protocol (1:11) Releases and release candidates● Bitcoin Core 30.3 (39:42) ● Bitcoin Core 29.4 (39:43) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #35295 (52:43) ● Bitcoin Core #34897 (1:13:54) ● Bitcoin Core #35406 (1:16:13) ● Bitcoin Core #35380 (1:21:36) ● Bitcoin Core #35568 (1:07:36) ● Bitcoin Core #34538 (1:23:43) ● BIPs #2208 (1:25:52) ● LND #10962 (1:27:27) ● LND #10897 (1:30:12) ● BINANAs #21 (1:31:34)

A bi-weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOBEnvoy 2.3.0Full 2.3.0 out of beta: redesigned Send flow with inter-account transfers, message signing, Address Explorer, sub-satoshi fee rates, QR-density adjustment for Passport signing.Passport Prime 1.3.0-betaVault imports, BIP85 passwords, mass 2FA imports, universal QR scanner and loads of bug fixesVisual improvements to the docs siteApp showcase is now liveNEWSEU "Chat Control" — scanning derogation survives Parliament, permanent client-side-scanning law stalls again - TFTC: EU Chat Control, private message scanning, and Bitcoin's open protocols / Patrick Breyer: Chat ControlRadar Chat launches: a Signal fork with self-custodial Lightning payments built in - Decrypt: Radar Chat wants to make sending Bitcoin as easy as firing off a text / Atlas21Bull Bitcoin sues the French Finance Ministry over DAC8/CARF crypto surveillance reporting - The Rage: French Finance Ministry sued over global surveillance databaseMiCA deadline forces a self-custody exodus: ~70% of departing Binance EU users chose self-custody over a licensed exchange - Blockonomi: Binance reveals 70% of EU users chose self-custody after MiCA / CoinDesk: Binance to stop EU services after failing to secure MiCA licenceCLARITY Act developer safe-harbor (BRCA / Section 604) goes to the wire as Wyden fights to keep it intact - TFTC: Wyden, CLARITY Act, Section 604 developer safe harbor / Coin Center: The BRCA survived CLARITY's markup, do not give it up nowBIP-110 data-filtering soft fork heads for its deadline with miner signaling near zero - CoinDesk: Bitcoin's BIP-110 fork deadline nears with miner support at zero / Bitcoin Optech #412RELEASESBitcoin core / protocolBitcoin Core 30.3 - 2026-07-10Point release on the current 30.x line. Grab binaries from bitcoincore.org (deterministic + signed), not GitHub attachments.Bitcoin Core 29.4 - 2026-07-10Maintenance release keeping the older stable branch patched for sovereign self-hosters.Hardware / signingSeedSigner 0.8.7 "Summer of SeedSigner" - 2026-07-0880 PRs from 20 contributors: localization to 22 languages (first RTL language, Persian), BBQr PSBT decoding, and a big codebase professionalization pass. Airgapped DIY signing for a much wider audience.BitBox02 Firmware 9.26.4 - 2026-07-09Small fix following the 9.26.3 security batch (out-of-bounds write fix, silent-payments and EIP-712 validation hardening). Paired with BitBoxApp 4.51.3.LightningCore Lightning 26.06.3 - 2026-07-09Latest in-window CLN (a coincurve dep bump in pyln-proto superseded 26.06.2 from 06-30).lnd 0.20.2-beta - 2026-07-10Maintenance release on the 0.20 branch, no migrations, built with go1.25.5. Follows the zero-timestamp DoS fix discussed last episode.LNbits 1.5.5 - 2026-07-08Revolut + Square payment options, better payment reliability across backends, faster theming, cached rates, improved CSV exports and OIDC/SSO fixes. (A same-day 1.5.6 followed.)Zeus 13.1.2 - 2026-07-02Bug fixes and UX polish: pasteable amount input, copy Lightning address, UTXO-picker label and LND address-generation fixes.EcashCashu TS 4.7.0 - 2026-07-09LTS release for the JS/TS Cashu library: NUT-29 batch quote checks plus fixes for malformed tokens and NUT-28 locking slots. Foundation layer for ecash wallets/mints.Cashu CDK 0.17.2 - 2026-06-29Exposes NUT-27 mint backup through the wallet bindings; Android 16KB page-size and Swift compatibility. (A 0.17.3 with NIP-47/NWC support shipped 07-13.)On-chain privacy / coinjoinAshigaru Desktop 1.1.0 - 2026-07-11Major redesign: dedicated Whirlpool mixing experience, private Electrum server discovery over Tor, card-based UTXO views with PayNym support, and a Whirlpool Stats tool. Post-Samourai sovereign coinjoin keeps shipping (this is a 1.0 -> 1.1 jump from last episode's launch).Wasabi Wallet 2.8.0 - 2026-06-27 [borderline, grace window]P2P sync of compact block filters (drops the central-server dependency), pay-in-coinjoin, sub-1 sat/vByte fees, payment batching, and arm64 Linux/Tails/Whonix support.P2P / no-KYCBull Bitcoin 6.12.8 - 2026-07-11Coins (UTXO) view, Coldcard NFC support, BitBox02 Nova Bluetooth on iOS, sub-1 sat/vByte fees, and swap recovery via mnemonic. Self-custody + non-KYC buy/sell.Aqua Wallet 0.5.1 - 2026-07-07OpenCryptoPay QR compatibility, broader LNURL support, more reliable Lightning via direct Boltz broadcasting.Bisq 1.10.3 - 2026-07-06Security update: disables filter-provided BTC nodes, hardens deposit-tx checks, and requires message signatures from the expected trade peer.Mostro Mobile 1.3.0 - 2026-07-03Transport-protocol v2 migration and more African payment methods (KES, MZN, TZS, UGX, ZAR, ZMW). Nostr-native P2P Bitcoin trading, no KYC.BasicSwap DEX 0.17.0 - 2026-07-09Cross-chain atomic-swap DEX. (A 0.17.1 patch followed 07-12.)Arkade 0.9.13 - 2026-07-07Small indexer fix. Ark self-custodial off-chain scaling.Self-hosting / infraumbrelOS 1.7.4 - 2026-07-10Fixes connectivity where remote access over Tor and Tor-using apps could fail to connect.StartOS start-wrt 1.0.0 - 2026-07-11First stable release of StartWRT, Start9's OpenWrt-based router OS. Sovereign networking layer to pair with a self-hosted server.Nostrngit-cli 2.6.3 - 2026-07-10ngit init now gives actionable account-setup guidance. Git-over-Nostr tooling, directly relevant to the GitHub-exodus / censorship-resistant-code thread.EDUCATIONEvolving Casa's Defenses Against Social Engineering -Practical writeup on how attackers social-engineer Bitcoin holders and how to defend. Pairs directly with the Lopp voice item for a self-custody-security segment listeners can act on.Bitcoin Privacy Tools Compared: CoinJoin vs PayJoin vs Silent Payments -Clean side-by-side of the main on-chain privacy techniques. Good "where do I actually start" pointer, topical given the Ashigaru and Wasabi releases and the ongoing Silent Payments rollout (BIP 352 reached Complete and the secp256k1 module merged in June; Sparrow shipped SP receiving last fortnight).Cove Wallet tutorial (BTC Sessions) -BTC Sessions walkthrough of the Cove wallet. 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Aaron and Sjors discuss what's new in Bitcoin Core v31This episode's sponsor: CoinKite, maker of the ColdCard.Aaron's Nostr: ⁠npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5⁠Sjors' Nostr: npub1v25jqj332n630klwtqeqxgyrjl4alw4phmluhu2x6lcxzwy9m03suqexw3

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sjors Provoost to discuss Newsletter #413.News● Using fountain codes for IBD (13:53) Releases and release candidates● Bitcoin Core 31.1 (22:52) ● LND v0.20.2-beta (28:49) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #32489 (31:11) ● Bitcoin Core #32606 (33:59) ● Bitcoin Core #34020 (0:48) ● Core Lightning #9104 (42:55) ● Eclair #3323 (45:11) ● LND #10832 (46:24)

https://rhr.tv/stream Bull Bitcoin Files Legal Challenge Against EU DAC8 Crypto Reporting Rules https://x.com/BULLBITCOIN_/status/2074770378350617052 Strike Launches Volatility-Proof Bitcoin-Backed Loans with No Price Liquidations https://x.com/Strike/status/2074546850309263365 Polymarket Adds Instant Bitcoin Lightning Deposits Powered by Spark https://x.com/spark/status/2074539080197775421 Radar.Chat Launches: Private Messaging with Self-Custodial Bitcoin Lightning on Signal https://x.com/RadarChat/status/2074523998596055061 Sen. Wyden Urges Preserving Blockchain Developer Protections in Crypto Bill https://www.theblock.co/post/407648/wyden-urges-senate-leaders-preserve-contested-blockchain-developer-protections-in-broader-crypto-bill Mempool Joins Stratum V2 Working Group for Decentralized Template Construction https://x.com/OrangeSurfBTC/status/2074928271481819614 Spiral: Block's Open-Source Bitcoin and AI Initiative https://spiral.xyz/about/ Bangladesh | Central Bank Mandates State QR Payment System Starting July 1, every merchant QR code in Bangladesh will be replaced by a government-backed standard. This comes after Bangladesh Bank announced that Bangla QR, its QR code system, will become mandatory. Banks and payments providers are required to update their existing merchant QR codes to Bangla QR by June 30 or face financial penalties. Officials claim the system will help create more digital transaction records, shrink the informal economy, improve tax collection, and strengthen anti-money laundering efforts. It also comes as part of the central bank's efforts to reduce reliance on more private payment methods, such as cash. FinancialFreedomReport.org Bitcoin Core 31.1 Released: Fixes PrivateBroadcast IP Leak and Chainstate Issues https://bitcoincore.org/en/releases/31.1/ SeedSigner v0.8.7 “Summer of SeedSigner”: 22 Languages and BBQr Support https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner/releases/tag/0.8.7 Bitcoin Safe 2.0.0: Guided Wallet Setup, Private Sync, and Device-Focused Signing https://bitcoin-safe.org/en/news/bitcoin-safe-2-0-0/ Giga Energy Introduces GigaBase: AI Data Centers Ready in 9 Months https://x.com/GigaEnergy_/status/2074478543719800951 3:33 - Opening riff 5:23 - Dashboard 9:08 - Bull Bitcoin DAC8 23:43 - Strike 27:58 - Polymarket Spark 29:58 - Radar Chat 35:28 - Sen. Wyden dev protections 37:03 - Mempool StratumV2 & Ocean announcement 39:28 - Spiral 42:03 - HRF Story of the Week 43:23 - Zaps/Boosts 50:53 - Software updates 54:23 - Giga energy Shoutout to our sponsors: Coinkite https://coinkite.com/ Strike https://strike.me/ Stakwork https://stakwork.ai/ Salt of the Earth https://drinksote.com/rhr Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/marty Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://tftc.io/podcasts/ Follow Odell: Nostr https://primal.net/odell Newsletter https://discreetlog.com/ Podcast https://citadeldispatch.com/

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Conduition and Jeremy Rubin to discuss Newsletter #412.Changing consensus● Benchmarking SLH-DSA STARK aggregation (1:05) ● Bird of Prey 2 (BoP-2) non-malleable schnorr and PQ signatures (10:21) ● Lattice-based signatures (19:41) ● Public key recovery for P2MR EC leaves (25:50) ● Aligning privacy incentives in P2MR (30:48) ● Prohibit merkle internal node preimages that encode minimal 64-byte transactions (49:38) ● Triggering EC disabling with a NUMS point spend or hashrate majority (37:36) Releases and release candidates● Bitcoin Core 31.1rc1 (1:32:43) ● Bitcoin Core 30.3rc1 (1:32:48) ● Bitcoin Core 29.4rc1 (1:32:52) ● Core Lightning v26.06.2 (1:36:01) ● LND v0.20.2-beta.rc1 (1:36:39) ● LND v0.21.1-beta (1:38:10) ● LDK v0.2.4 (1:38:57) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #35266 (1:40:00) ● Bitcoin Core #35550 (1:41:10) ● Bitcoin Core #35610 (1:42:15) ● BIPs #2196 (1:43:52) ● BIPs #2165 (1:47:46) ● BIPs #2201 (1:50:13) ● LND #10900 (1:51:20) ● LND #10927 (1:52:37) ● LDK #4748 (1:54:13)

https://rhr.tv/stream Bitcoin Crowdfunding for Venezuela Earthquake Relief Supplies https://x.com/pakovm/status/2070254848814288935 Strike Now Authorized Under MiCA Across All 27 EU Countries https://x.com/jackmallers/status/2072353197650518196 Bark Wallet Solves Offchain State Backups with Encrypted Snapshots https://x.com/notgrubles/status/2072386304642286029 Blink Wallet Introduces Non-Custodial Accounts https://blink.sv/blog/non-custodial-accounts-in-blink-wallet Calvin Kim Receives OpenSats Long-Term Support Grant https://opensats.org/blog/calvin-kim-receives-lts-grant OpenSats Developer Spotlight: Egge (Coco) https://opensats.org/blog/developer-spotlight-egge-coco OpenSats Developer Spotlight: Rajarshi Maitra https://opensats.org/blog/developer-spotlight-rajarshi-maitra OpenSats Grant Map https://opensats.org/map BitGo CEO Announces ~15% Workforce Reduction for Strategic Focus https://x.com/mikebelshe/status/2070240967479996463 Strategy Announces Digital Credit Capital Framework https://www.strategy.com/press/strategy-announces-digital-credit-capital-framework_06-29-2026 Cambodia Launches Smart Policing Initiative in Phnom Penh Cambodia's Ministry of Interior formally launched a China-backed “Smart Police” initiative in the capital city of Phnom Penh. The new policing system will connect 487 cameras equipped with AI-powered identity and vehicle tracking and send all video feeds into a new centralized command center. To support the rollout, Chinese-backed regional security partners are providing financial and technical support for the project and have pledged to expand the camera grid in the future. Cambodian officials say the project will protect residents and tourists. But in a country where dissent is overtly and systematically punished, these new AI-powered systems can easily double as a surveillance machine capable of identifying anyone who criticizes the ruling party. FinancialFreedomReport.org Ashigaru Terminal v1.0.0 Released: Whirlpool Coinjoin Client Built from Sparrow https://ashigaru.rs/news/release-terminal-v1-0-0/ COLDCARD 5.5.1 and 1.4.1Q Firmware: BIP-322 Proof of Reserves, WIF Store, and Secure Notes Upgrades https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-5.5.1-1.4.1q-release/ Wasabi Wallet v2.8.0 Release https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/releases/tag/v2.8.0 Noah v0.1.3 Release https://github.com/smolcars/noah/releases/tag/v0.1.3 New Checkout Method for in Person BTCPay Stores https://x.com/MrKukks/status/2072677988026421484 Bitcoin Core secp256k1 Pull Request #1884 https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/pull/1884 Tails 7.9.1 Release https://tails.net/news/version_7.9.1/ Open Standard Introduces Open USD https://joinopenstandard.com/blog/introducing-open-usd The Secret History of Polymarket – Part 1: DARPA, Thiel, and Prediction Market Origins https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/06/investigative-series/the-secret-history-of-polymarket-part-1/ Claude Code Accused of Hiding China Proxy Fingerprints Inside System Prompts https://www.internationalcyberdigest.com/claude-code-accused-of-hiding-china-proxy-fingerprints-inside-system-prompts/ Foreign Influence Campaign Against American AI – Part II: Singham Ground Game https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/foreign-influence-campaign-against-american-ai-part-ii-singham-ground-game AI Drones Rapidly Restoring Degraded Land in Brazil (MORFO) https://x.com/alex_verem/status/2072001777487196662 Home Mining Playbook: https://www.tftc.io/home-mining-energy-playbook 3:33 - Sweaty rip 6:38 - Dashboard 9:28 - Venezuela relief 14:28 - Strike EU 16:13 - Bark 18:43 - Blink 23:23 - Open USD 27:13 - OpenSats 31:03 - BitGo layoffs 32:28 - Strategy update 33:58 - HRF Story of the Week 38:43 - Boosts 44:18 - Software updates 47:58 - Secret history of Polymarket 53:18 - BPI foreign AI 59:38 - MORFO Shoutout to our sponsors: Coinkite https://coinkite.com/ Strike https://strike.me/ Stakwork https://stakwork.ai/ Salt of the Earth https://drinksote.com/rhr Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/marty Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://tftc.io/podcasts/ Follow Odell: Nostr https://primal.net/odell Newsletter https://discreetlog.com/ Podcast https://citadeldispatch.com/

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Nishant Bansal and Matthew Zipkin to discuss Newsletter #411.News● LND zero-timestamp gossip DoS disclosure (1:00) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange● Is it a bug that `OP_IF` is part of the tapscript opcodes? (34:02) ● Why would forbidding `OP_IF` in tapscript be a problem? (41:11) ● Does a softfork always succeed? (49:17) ● How to set up Bitcoin Core to mine a valid block after the BIP110 activation in August 2026? (56:44) ● Are BIP110 blocks on a branch with lower difficulty valid? (59:47) ● What is the story behind Bitcoin test networks? (1:07:41) ● Why was `-datacarriersize` redefined in 2022, and why was the 2023 proposal to expand it not merged? (1:15:35) ● Are chains of 26 unconfirmed transactions prohibited by the wallet in Bitcoin Core 31.0? (1:25:33) ● Are there changes in Bitcoin Core 29.0 that affect memory usage? (1:28:20) ● What is Bitcoin Core's release schedule? (1:30:21) Releases and release candidates● LDK v0.1.10 (1:34:50) ● LDK v0.2.3 (1:35:31) ● BTCPay Server 2.4.0 (1:37:04) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #35070 (1:39:27) ● Bitcoin Core #35182 (13:15) ● BIPs #2198 (1:46:09) ● LDK #4713 (1:51:17) ● LDK #4684 (1:53:47)

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by rkrux, Roland Bewick, and Steven Roose to discuss ⁠Newsletter #410⁠.News● Discussion of removing RBF signaling from wallet transactions (0:57) Changes to services and client software● Sparrow Wallet 2.5.0 adds silent payments receiving (59:55) ● Bark live on Bitcoin mainnet (29:46) ● Arké Ark wallet announced (32:18) ● Noah Ark wallet announced (31:52) ● Alby Hub v1.23.0 released (15:00) ● JoinMarket NG 0.32.0 released (1:01:02) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #35221 (1:02:13) ● Bitcoin Core #35254 (1:06:59) ● Bitcoin Core #35498 (1:09:26) ● Eclair #3318 (1:11:06) ● LND #10789 (1:13:05) ● Rust Bitcoin #6321 (1:14:09) ● LDK #4685 (1:16:14)

https://rhr.tv/stream Private Broadcast May Reveal Sender IP Address in Bitcoin Core 31.0 https://bitcoincore.org/en/2026/06/06/privatebroadcast-ip-leak/ Bitcoin Toggle Now Live on Square Register https://x.com/cashapp/status/2067374663160983885 Illinois Set to Begin Taxing Bitcoin https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/illinois-set-begin-taxing-bitcoin-172237413.html Fed Ends Forward Guidance Era – Tea Leaves Back on the Menu https://x.com/fejau_inc/status/2067352890507972709 Robinhood to Cut 10% of Full-Time Workforce https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/robinhood-cut-10-its-full-time-workforce-2026-06-16/ China Developing AI-Powered Tools to Predict Dissent Leaked documents revealed that Chinese technology company, Geedge Networks, is developing AI-powered tools aimed at predicting who might one day criticize the CCP. Working with MESA Lab, a regime-backed research lab, Geedge is reportedly building behavioral profiles of individuals based on their social media, location data, telecommunications, and online activity. AI models could then sift through profiles and spotlight those who might be a political risk. There is no evidence the technology is finalized or deployed, but if deployed, China's surveillance system could become a tool to chill dissent before it ever begins. FinancialFreedomReport.org Alby Hub v1.23.0 Release https://github.com/getAlby/hub/releases/tag/v1.23.0 Cove 1.3.0 Beta: Passkey Cloud Backup + Multi-Account Support https://x.com/covewallet/status/2066994714574778786 OpenAuspex Project Homepage https://www.openauspex.dev/ Bark Wallet Now Available on Umbrel https://blog.second.tech/bark-wallet-now-on-umbrel/ Enclavia: Six Hard Problems, One Solution https://enclavia.io/blog/six-hard-problems-one-solution/ Anthropic Expands Access to Fable and Mythos https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access Trump Administration Backs Musk's xAI in NAACP Data Center Lawsuit https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-backs-musks-xai-naacp-data-center-lawsuit-2026-06-16/ SpaceX to Buy Anysphere for $60 Billion https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/spacex-buy-anysphere-60-billion-2026-06-16/ Secret Elite Group Member List Leaked https://archive.ph/iM5ei Midjourney Medical Blogpost https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost AI Subscription Subsidy Analysis https://x.com/semianalysis_/status/2064815044085318040 Elon Shares Anti-Drone Rifle Footage https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2066356709635866898 3:33 - Opening riff 5:33 - Dashboard 8:48 - Core 31.0 bug 11:33 - Illinois bitcoin tax 18:53 - Square pay with bitcoin 24:33 - Fed tea leaves 30:53 - Robinhood cuts employees 33:53 - HRF Story of the Week 36:53 - Shoutouts 39:43 - Software updates 52:08 - Fable and Mythos 1:03:13 - Trump backs Musk 1:08:38 - SpaceX buys Cursor 1:15:03 - CLARITY Act 1:18:03 - Secret society 1:23:28 - Midjourney medical 1:28:13 - AI subsidy analysis 1:31:43 - Drone shooting Shoutout to our sponsors: Coinkite https://coinkite.com/ Strike https://strike.me/ Stakwork https://stakwork.ai/ Salt of the Earth https://drinksote.com/rhr Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/marty Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://tftc.io/podcasts/ Follow Odell: Nostr https://primal.net/odell Newsletter https://discreetlog.com/ Podcast https://citadeldispatch.com/

Are we treating Bitcoin like a dead asset or the revolutionary electronic cash system Satoshi intended? I sat down with Xiaohui Liu and Mate Tokay to discuss why the current ‘ossification' culture is a betrayal of Bitcoin's original potential. Right now, Bitcoin feels like a desolate place. We are witnessing a massive brain drain, with developers leaving because the culture has become obsessed with keeping the chain “frozen.” People treat it like a digital collectible, a shiny rock to lock in a custody wallet until the Fed crashes. That's not the vision. That's stagnation. We have settled for “digital gold” because we forgot how to use the money. The missing link is OP_CAT. This isn't new code. It was originally disabled by Satoshi himself before he left the building. It wasn't deleted. It's still there, waiting in the code, capable of restoration. It is the key to unlocking the “magic internet money” vibe we all felt in the early days. Restoring it honors the original white paper—a system for electronic cash, not just a store of value for ETFs. Xiaohui Liu dropped a truth bomb during our chat that should anger every Bitcoiner. He argued that Ethereum and thousands of other blockchains would not even exist had Bitcoin Core allowed Vitalik to build on Bitcoin Script originally. Think about that. We wouldn't need the altcoin casino if Bitcoin had remained programmable. We could have a one-chain future where programmability eliminates the need for Ethereum, Solana, and the rest of the crypto circus, consolidating value back into the Bitcoin we actually love. But we have a problem, and its name is Wall Street. Watch on: Odysee | YouTube | X | Rumble | Bitchute | Vigilante.tv The institutional adoption everyone cheers for is the very thing killing the innovation. ETFs and high-profile figures like Michael Saylor threaten to ossify the network completely. Saylor claims to run a development company, but let's be real: he doesn't understand the technical upgrades necessary for Bitcoin's future. He just wants a number to go up so he can buy more convertible debt. We need programmable money more than ever, not a centralized asset class for the same bankers we are trying to escape. The system won't fix itself. You can't wait for Core developers to solve the problems they created. It's time to stop settling for their narrative. You need to master your journey in the crypto space and look into solutions like the OP_CAT Layer before you get left with a hollowed-out version of what Satoshi built. We have to embrace the Bitcoin reality that requires active participation, not passive holding. This bifurcation in the crypto space is happening—are you going to follow the institutions or the code? Thankfully, you don't have to do this alone. Join us at The Crypto Vigilante and we'll help you see the writing on the wall. Follow me on X @VamosVigilante Want to be on the pulse of crypto? Access our exclusive portfolio, insider reports, full archive of monthly newsletters, real-time market updates, buy/sell alerts, and private community chat and get instant access to the latest issue of our monthly newsletter… Subscribe now! FREE “Crypto 101” Video Training – Watch Our Millionaire Crypto Analyst Reveal the Exact Crypto Wallet Setup He Wished He Had When Starting Out: https://CryptoVigilante.io/crypto101TCV Summit: “What Matters Most in Crypto” | https://dollarvigilante.spiffy.co/checkout/what-matters-most Replay videos available! The Crypto Vigilante (Follow on All Socials) The post Stop Settling for Digital Gold: OP_CAT and the Restoration of Satoshi’s Vision appeared first on The Crypto Vigilante.

Trump family made $2.3 BILLION in crypto profits while everyday investors lost nearly the SAME amount — Reuters EXPOSED the $TRUMP coin, World Liberty Financial & American Bitcoin playbook. Plus Bitcoin's worst week since FTX, Canada's $100M to Palestine & more.A bombshell Reuters investigation found the Trump family pocketed at least $2.3B across four crypto ventures — World Liberty Financial, the $TRUMP meme coin, ALT5 Sigma, and American Bitcoin — while buyers lost roughly the same, with the family risking virtually none of its own capital. We break it all down, then run the worst week in Bitcoin since the FTX collapse, a $20M token exploit, a 20-year U.S. BTC sell-ban bill, Monaco's 0% crypto tax, and a packed Notable North on Carney's Canada.In this episode of the Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast:

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Vasil Dimov to discuss Newsletter #409.News● Draft BIP for testnet5 (0:31) Releases and release candidates● LND 0.21.0-beta (17:25) ● Core Lightning 26.06.1 (20:19) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #35410 (21:28) ● Bitcoin Core #34779 (38:00) ● Bitcoin Core #32150 (41:36) ● LDK #4647 (45:14) ● BTCPay Server #7218 (51:34) ● BIPs #2186 (53:07)

Trump family made $2.3 BILLION in crypto profits while everyday investors lost nearly the SAME amount — Reuters EXPOSED the $TRUMP coin, World Liberty Financial & American Bitcoin playbook. Plus Bitcoin's worst week since FTX, Canada's $100M to Palestine & more.A bombshell Reuters investigation found the Trump family pocketed at least $2.3B across four crypto ventures — World Liberty Financial, the $TRUMP meme coin, ALT5 Sigma, and American Bitcoin — while buyers lost roughly the same, with the family risking virtually none of its own capital. We break it all down, then run the worst week in Bitcoin since the FTX collapse, a $20M token exploit, a 20-year U.S. BTC sell-ban bill, Monaco's 0% crypto tax, and a packed Notable North on Carney's Canada.In this episode of the Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast:

"Bitcoin is not physical gold. You can kill Bitcoin." Matthew Kratter — who runs Bitcoin University, did a PhD in literature under René Girard, and ran global macro at Peter Thiel's hedge fund — joins the show to explain why he now holds nearly everything he owns in Bitcoin, and why he's become one of the loudest voices warning that Bitcoin is under attack from the inside. We trace the improbable path first: from Girard's seminar table to growing Thiel's $50M Roth into a $2 billion fund, and the 20 years trading that taught him to spot financial engineering "traps" — the same TradFi tricks he says are now being smuggled back into Bitcoin. Then it turns to the civil war happening right now: how Bitcoin Core blew open OP_RETURN and "went rogue," why spam and CSAM are an existential risk to node runners, what BIP-110 actually does, and who really controls the network (hint: not the miners, devs, or exchanges). His thesis throughout — consensus flows from culture — and his answer to all of it: stop being a spectator, run a node, and mine from home. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

"Keeping Bitcoin running is the primary concern here. Making sure that Bitcoin is available to be used as money by everyday people, any actor who wants to come onto Bitcoin and send one UTXO from one to another. That's the most important piece for me when thinking about defending Bitcoin.And the biggest difference, of course, is that this is a decentralised system. There is no central controller. There's no central control room giving out commands and saying 'this has to change, you must do this.'We are a decentralised group of individuals who are acting on the network. And so the defence of the system is not down to, say, the CEO dictating that everyone has to have their password be 64 characters and change it every three months, which is bad practise, by the way. It's everyone working together to do their part. So that's the biggest difference." ~ Luke de Wolf I sat down with Luke de Wolf to talk about the real security risks facing Bitcoin today. Luke has spent his career protecting critical industrial control systems like oil pipelines and electrical grids. Now, he is taking that hardcore cybersecurity mindset and applying it to the Bitcoin network in his brand new book, *Defending Bitcoin*. And trust me, it is a conversation you need to hear. We spent a lot of time debating the heated topic of arbitrary data and the drama surrounding BIP 110. Should we enforce strict rules to keep the blockchain pure, or is trying to force a chain split a bigger threat to Bitcoin's integrity as money? Luke actually changed his mind on this recently, and he lays out exactly why the stakes could be too high to play games with consensus. His perspective really cuts through the noise and challenges the tribal thinking happening on both sides. But we didn't just stop there. We also get into mining centralization, selfish mining attacks, and why we need to view Bitcoin as high-stakes critical infrastructure. The decisions we make now could determine if this network survives long-term. Guest Links Luke on X (Link: https://twitter.com/lukedewolf) BTCHel's Website (Link: https://btchel.com/) Defending Bitcoin's Website (Link: https://defendingbitcoin.com/) Bitcoin Infinity Show on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@BitcoinInfinityShow) Affiliate Links Become sovereign, hold your keys, be censorship resistant with the Bitbox hardware wallet. Get 5% off everything in the store with code GUY (Link: https://bitbox.swiss/) Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the other great games from The Free Market Kids! Use code GUY10 at checkout for 10% off your cart! (Link: https://www.freemarketkids.com/collections/games-1) (Under construction) Check out the list of products and services I use and recommend on BitcoinAudible.com (Link: https://bitcoinaudible.com/) Host Links ⁠Guy on Nostr ⁠(Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney) ⁠Guy on X ⁠(Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann) G... Chapters (00:00:00) - Introduction(00:06:21) - Applying industrial control systems logic to Bitcoin(00:11:29) - Real-world physical system risks and attacks(00:20:15) - Bridging critical infrastructure cybersecurity(00:27:45) - The CIA triad and decentralization(00:32:32) - The arbitrary data and BIP 110 controversy(00:38:28) - Hash rate centralization and mining power(00:46:42) - Data limits and the op_return debate(00:57:56) - Inscriptions as an exploit in Bitcoin script(01:04:16) - Taproot consequences and the problem with Tapscript(01:14:43) - Fee spikes and competing with arbitrary data(01:28:54) - Why enforcing BIP 110 risks a chaotic split(01:42:07) - Bitcoin Core governance issues(01:53:35) - Closing thoughts and where to find Luke

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Pyth and Ademan to discuss Newsletter #408.News● A post-quantum path for BIP324 (37:15) ● Discussion of QR signing payloads for miniscript wallets (1:27) Changing consensus● CTV-only vault proof of concept (13:08) ● Post-quantum Lightning discussion (43:41) ● Quantum attack game theory (47:24) ● BIP54 64-byte transactions and potential legitimate uses (49:15) Releases and release candidates● Core Lightning 26.06 (1:11:15) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #35269 (1:15:42) ● Bitcoin Core #34644 (1:20:45) ● Bitcoin Core #34198 (1:22:21) ● LND #10813 (1:26:32) ● Rust Bitcoin #6250 (1:28:05) ● BOLTs #1338 (1:36:06) ● BOLTs #1326 (1:37:23)

From Berkley University to trading for Peter Thiel, to finding Bitcoin! $ BTC 65,610 Block Height 952,238 Todays guest on the show is Matthew Kratter of Bitcoin University. We discuss Matt's journey from TradFi to Bitcoin, his critiques of financial engineering and loan products, and the ongoing "Spam Wars" and BIP-110 soft fork debate within the Bitcoin community. Key Topics: Matthew Kratter's TradFi background and entry into Bitcoin Critique of financial engineering and "Bitcoin Treasury Companies" Dangers of Bitcoin loan products and rehypothecation The "Spam Wars" and Ordinals/BRC20 tokens on Bitcoin Critique of Bitcoin Core development philosophy and policies Explanation and support for BIP-110 User Activated Soft Fork (UASF) Importance of Bitcoin node runners and self-education Personal reflections on Peter Thiel's trajectory Check out my book ‘Choose Life' - https://bitcoinbook.shop/search?q=prince Pleb Service Announcements: Join 20 thousand Bitcoiners on @cluborange https://signup.cluborange.org/co/princey CONFERENCES: BTC PRAGUE - 11th - 13th June 2026 http://btcprg.me/BITTEN - Use code BITTEN for - 10% BTC HEL - 25th - 26th September 2026. - Helsinki https://btchel.com/ Use code BITTEN for - 10% My First Bitcoin. https://myfirstbitcoin.org/ Shills and Mench's: BITBOX - SELF CUSTODY YOUR BITCOIN - www.bitbox.swiss/bitten Use Code BITTEN THE MEETUP BREAKDWON - BITCOIN EVENTS UK - https://www.themeetupbreakdown.com/ SWAN BITCOIN - www.swan.com/bitten PLEBEIAN MARKET - BUY AND SELL STUFF FOR SATS; https://plebeian.market/ @PlebeianMarket ZAPRITE - https://zaprite.com/bitten - Invoicing and accounting for Bitcoiners - Save $40 SATSBACK - Shop online and earn back sats! https://satsback.com/register/5AxjyPRZV8PNJGlM ALL FURTHER LINKS HERE - FOR DISCOUNTS AND OFFERS - https://vida.page/princey - https://linktr.ee/princey21m

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Chandra Pratap to discuss Newsletter #407.News● Core Lightning assertion DoS disclosure (0:47) ● Bitcoin Core developer meeting transcripts (14:34) Releases and release candidates● Eclair v0.14.0 (20:30) ● Core Lightning 26.06rc2 (23:01) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #33966 (24:14) ● Bitcoin Core #34917 (28:04) ● Bitcoin Core #35017 (30:52) ● BIPs #1944 (35:25) ● BIPs #2108 (36:14) ● Eclair #3192 (39:28) ● LDK #4584 (40:28) ● LDK #4628 (41:27) ● LND #10552 (43:35) ● LND #10820 (48:52)

https://rhr.tv/stream Sentiment Analysis https://x.com/sullymichaelvan/status/2059646236966137982 Fidelity Glitch https://x.com/adi_baradwaj/status/2059422632215548143 NY legal complaint seeks title to 39,069 allegedly abandoned bitcoin wallets https://static1.squarespace.com/static/694884477ae7ad3f7b78981b/t/6a038dcea3e5b83386bf21a4/1778617806647/2026-05-01+%5B21%5D-%5B22%5D+Summons+%26+Amended+Complaint.pdf Is it Shkreli? https://x.com/MartinShkreli/status/2059711308921028692 Former CIA officer accused of stealing $40M in gold bars and foreign currency https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/28/politics/former-cia-officer-public-money-theft Texas app store age-verification law allowed to take effect for now https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05/28/texas-apple-google-app-store-age-verification/ South Carolina social media law criticized as statewide age surveillance https://reclaimthenet.org/south-carolina-social-media-surveillance-law Walz signs Minnesota bill adding social media protections for children https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/walz-signs-bill-enacting-social-media-guardrails-for-minnesota-children/ Developer Spotlight: Kurt Unger https://opensats.org/blog/developer-spotlight-kurt-unger CFTC Approves Kalshi Perpetual BTC Future https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9240-26 North Korea | Dictatorship Implements Rice Price Controls North Korea's authoritarian regime is attempting to cap rice prices after a sharp food price surge, but the policy is making the shortage worse. According to Daily NK, the regime ordered local officials to stop street vendors from selling rice above a state-imposed ceiling. This action was in response to rice prices rising above 30,000 North Korean won ($33.33) per kilogram. Officials and undercover agents are now inspecting markets, checking sellers' account books, and confiscating rice from those accused of charging too much. Traders are responding by pulling rice from public stalls and selling it privately from homes or other hidden locations. For North Koreans, the state's actions make rice harder to find and more expensive. FinancialFreedomReport.org Matching Hashes: Reproducing the Guix-built Bitcoin Core release binary with Nix https://b10c.me/projects/027-bitcoind-gunix-match/ ngit-cli v2.5.0 adds PR defaults, GRASP fallback handling, and checkout fixes https://github.com/DanConwayDev/ngit-cli/releases/tag/v2.5.0 Europa VPN Market https://europa.westernbtc.com/ Google employee charged with insider trading https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/google-employee-charged-insider-trading Data broker location data used to target and kill U.S. troops https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/28/enemies-are-exploiting-unregulated-data-broker-location-data-to-target-and-kill-u-s-troops/ 3:33 - Opening riff 9:03 - Dashboard 16:48 - Angry plebs 37:48 - Fidelity glitch 42:48 - Abandoned wallets 48:53 - Texas age verification 56:33 - Drone warfare 1:04:48 - OpenSats dev spotlight 1:06:18 - CFTC Kalshi 1:10:48 - HRF Story of the Week 1:13:18 - Matching Hashes 1:15:23 - Zaps & Boosts 1:22:03 - Software updates 1:26:16 - Google insider trading 1:29:08 - Data brokers risk troops 1:33:03 - US constitution on the blockchain Shoutout to our sponsors: Coinkite https://coinkite.com/ Strike https://strike.me/ Stakwork https://stakwork.ai/ Salt of the Earth https://drinksote.com/rhr Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/marty Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://tftc.io/podcasts/ Follow Odell: Nostr https://primal.net/odell Newsletter https://discreetlog.com/ Podcast https://citadeldispatch.com/

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Oliver Gugger and 0xB10C to discuss Newsletter #406.News● Significant updates to BIP322 Generic Signed Message Format (1:17) ● TCP hole punching for Bitcoin nodes behind NATs (17:39) Changes to services and client software● Ibis Wallet announced (40:15) ● LDK Server announced (41:10) ● Mempool.space v3.3.0 released (42:06) ● peer-observer P2P monitoring tooling (32:28) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #29136 (43:27) ● Bitcoin Core #34893 (47:24) ● Bitcoin Core #34860 (48:20) ● Bitcoin Core #31298 (53:52) ● Bitcoin Core #28802 (57:04) ● Eclair #3298 (58:52) ● LDK #4575 (1:02:08) ● LND #10814 (1:03:13) ● Rust Bitcoin #6191 (1:04:35) ● BLIPs #42 (1:06:20)

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What is it that Bitcoin Miners produce? $ BTC 77,620 Block height 950,255 Today's guest on the show is Bob Burnett from Barefoot Mining. He discusses his extensive background in the tech industry, his strong critique of Bitcoin Core development, and his vision for the future of Bitcoin mining, including the importance of BIP-110 and the decentralisation of hash power. Key Topics: Bob Burnett's background and entry into Bitcoin mining Critique of Bitcoin Core's development process and decision-making BIP-110 (RDTS) soft fork and its temporary role in community reset Distinction between Bitcoin miners and hashers Centralization of hash power and selfish mining attacks Block space as a commodity and the future of derivatives markets Nation-state adoption and the need for sovereign mining Empowering plebs through hash power rental and alternative mining pools (Ocean, Datum) Fungibility of Bitcoin and the value of "virgin Bitcoin" Follow Bob: X - @boomer_btc NOSTR - npub1f7p776fz3vlqnv9tcyw7m8nts5ceczmlaudqgjuwaxtsuwzyrqtssuvg6q https://www.barefootmining.com/ Link to the article by Renaud Cuny - https://blockspaceweekly.substack.com/p/issue-21-mining-health-part-1 Check out my book ‘Choose Life' - https://bitcoinbook.shop/search?q=prince Pleb Service Announcements: Join 20 thousand Bitcoiners on @cluborange https://signup.cluborange.org/co/princey CONFERENCES: BITCOIN IRELAND - 22ND -25TH MAY 2026 - DUBLIN https://bitcoinireland.eu/ Use code BITTEN for - 10% BTC PRAGUE - 11th - 13th June 2026 http://btcprg.me/BITTEN - Use code BITTEN for - 10% BTC HEL - 25th - 26th September 2026. - Helsinki https://btchel.com/ Use code BITTEN for - 10% My First Bitcoin. https://myfirstbitcoin.org/ Shills and Mench's: BITBOX - SELF CUSTODY YOUR BITCOIN - www.bitbox.swiss/bitten Use Code BITTEN THE MEETUP BREAKDWON - BITCOIN EVENTS UK - https://www.themeetupbreakdown.com/ SWAN BITCOIN - www.swan.com/bitten PLEBEIAN MARKET - BUY AND SELL STUFF FOR SATS; https://plebeian.market/ @PlebeianMarket SATSBACK - Shop online and earn back sats! https://satsback.com/register/5AxjyPRZV8PNJGlM ALL FURTHER LINKS HERE - FOR DISCOUNTS AND OFFERS - https://vida.page/princey - https://linktr.ee/princey21m

A bi-weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOBAll aboard the vibe trainFTF with Max TQ got some holidays coming upKeonne appealNEWSBisq v1 trade protocol exploit: 11.59 BTC drained, fully reimbursed, hardening shipped in 1.10.0 (bisq.community PSA, Bisq on X, reimbursement plan on GitHub)Disclosed: 2026-05-01Bisq's v1 trade protocol had a missing validation check on taker-side input. Because maker and taker were supposed to use the same miner fee, a malicious taker could push a bad fee value through the transaction math and shrink the multisig output to 0.001 BTC while sweeping the rest into the taker's change. Attacker drained 11.59 BTC from 10 users, all on altcoin trades. Maintainer Henrik Jannsen filed a reimbursement plan on GitHub on May 3, payouts in BTC (with BSQ as optional), DAO vote scheduled around May 25. The hotfix landed as Bisq 1.10.0 on 2026-05-16 with broader hardening: trade protocol checks, network message validation, release verification, supply-chain hardening. The Bisq team explicitly flagged the incident as a likely AI-assisted exploit, though they did not detail how AI was used.Sterlingov Appeal: The Criminalization of Privacy (therage.co)Published: 2026-05-12The appellate court reviewing Roman Sterlingov's Bitcoin Fog conviction openly suggested that mixers remain "legal in theory but not practice" once criminals use them. Judges questioned whether running an internationally accessible service forces compliance with every jurisdiction's licensing regime.Pro-law-enforcement CLARITY Act advances out of Senate Banking (therage.co)Published: 2026-05-15The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act passed committee with expanded surveillance provisions: Bank Secrecy Act integration sixteen times over, new PATRIOT Act special measures. Privacy advocates flagged the breadth of data collection on Americans who haven't done anything.CVE-2024-52911 disclosed in Bitcoin Optech #405, fix has been in Bitcoin Core 29.0+ since release (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/05/15/)Published: 2026-05-05Use-after-free in parallel script validation between Bitcoin Core 0.14.0 and 28.x. Required attacker-supplied proof-of-work, so practical attack window was narrow, but the bug sat unannounced across many versions.Bitcoin Knots 29.3 enables BIP-110, fork-off countdown started (release notes) + Lopp's countdownPublished: 2026-05-09 (release)Knots 29.3 ships RDTS soft-fork enforcement on by default. Nodes running Knots with this flag set will fork off the network in August unless they change behaviour. Lopp set up a countdown.Bybit exploit post-mortem (Blockstream): enterprise multisig + hardware wallets did not save them (blog.blockstream.com)Published: 2026-05 (week of 5-12)$1.5B drained despite multisig and hardware. Failure was process, not key custody, a UI / signing-flow compromise.Poland passes EU MiCA-aligned crypto bill while Zondacrypto fraud probe deepens (bitcoinmagazine.com)Published: 2026-05-15Polish lawmakers ratified the MiCA framework ahead of the July EU deadline. The vote landed alongside an investigation into Zondacrypto's collapse, roughly $96M of user losses, with Prime Minister Tusk floating possible foreign-influence angles.Claude helps retrieve lost 5BTCX user 'CPRKRN' has Claude check over whole file system and match a wallet file to an old passwordSpiral and Block ship Loupe, an AI-powered vulnerability scanner for open-source Bitcoin (spiralbtc.substack.com)Published: 2026-05-12Uses LLMS to surface security weaknesses in code repositories and requires demonstrable test cases for any vulnerability report so false positives are minimised. Spiral and Block are funding scans themselves; reports go to maintainers confidentially before any public disclosure.RELEASESBitcoin Core 31.0 (release index entry) — 2026-05-12Operator review required before production rollout. Major version landing.Bitcoin Knots v29.3.knots20260508 — 2026-05-09RDTS soft-fork enforcement on by default, fork-off risk in August. New configuration changes, bug fixes.Core Lightning v26.06rc1 — 2026-05-12Adds graceful command for clean shutdown, new sendamount RPC, BOLT12 payer-proof support, plus 211 commits since v26.04.Bitkey App 2026.9.1 — 2026-05-15Security patch from Block.Trezor Suite v26.5.1 — 2026-05-15Legacy labeling migration, WalletConnect insufficient-balance warnings, side-by-side trade comparisons, new DeFi Tokens section.BitBoxApp v4.51.0 — 2026-05-12Bundles BitBox02 firmware v9.26.1, address formatting in 4-char groups, iOS haptic feedback on charts, account-summary perf.Ledger Live Desktop 4.4.0 — 2026-05-13Hardens Live App handling of external-protocol URLs (itms-apps:, ms-word:, file:, etc.) across Chromium navigation vectors.Ledger Live Mobile 4.4.0 — 2026-05-13Adds an addresses section to asset detail screens, device-card management menus with removal confirmations.Bull Bitcoin Mobile v6.10.1 — 2026-05-18Onboarding redirect fix on wallet creation failure.Bull Bitcoin Mobile v6.10.0 — 2026-05-11Major release: Ledger hardware-wallet integration, FSS hybrid storage strategy, real-time WebSocket notifications, new onboarding wizard, Payjoin privacy enhancements, 11 new translations.Bull Bitcoin Mobile v6.9.101-Internal-Release (display name v6.9.108-Internal) — 2026-05-09Pre-6.10.0 testing build, Android migration / startup wizard / secure storage fixes.Bitcoin Safe 2.0.0rc0 — 2026-05-17Comprehensive redesign of the wallet setup wizard, added support for Coldcard mk5 and Trezor 7, plugin architecture via external repos, fiat-balance category column.Sparrow Frigate 1.5.0 — 2026-05-14Low-latency mempool ingestion via Bitcoin Core's ZMQ sequence publisher, auto-discovers the bitcoind ZMQ endpoint when unconfigured. Useful for operators running Sparrow Frigate alongside Core.Blockstream Green iOS release_5.4.0 — 2026-05-11Aggregate fiat balance across all wallet assets, updated Send flow for Lightning, migrates Lightning backend from Breez to Greenlight (Blockstream's own LSP).Blockstream Green Android release_5.4.0 — 2026-05-08Same redesign as iOS: aggregate fiat balance, redesigned Send flow (recipient → asset → account), transaction pagination, also the Breez-to-Greenlight migration.Blockstream Green Desktop 3.3.0 — 2026-05-06Total fiat balance in wallet header, AMP ID exposed in settings, GDK 0.77.3, Qt 6.11.0, Wayland fixes.Peach Bitcoin 0.69.0 (build 346) — 2026-05-06Signature validation for backed-up payment details, encrypts custom refund addresses, removes invalid backed-up data.Peach Bitcoin 0.69.0 (build 345) — 2026-05-05Percentage filtering on offers, encrypted server backup syncing for payment methods, advanced offer-creation options, GrapheneOS camera-permission fix, Buy Offer creation restricted to experienced users.ZEUS v13.0.2-rc3 — 2026-05-18Third RC for 13.0.2. New RGS server at rgs.zeusln.com providing graph updates every 15 minutes instead of every three hours. Clipboard and NFC UX improvements.ZEUS v13.0.1 — 2026-05-07Stable release: fixes recovering Embedded LND wallets from seed (was stalling out), payment retry logic, false-positive offline detection. Cashu token sweeping to self-custody continues to land.Alby Hub v1.22.2 "Marc Horowitz" — 2026-05-11Adds Core Lightning support (their most-requested feature), new AI & Agents page, integrated on-chain wallet mode, custom transaction labels, redesigned settings, improved budget selection for app connections.Boltz Backend 3.13.0 — 2026-05-08Full Arkade swap support, EVM commitment-swap lockup flow, multi-LND support in backend and sidecar.Boltz Client 2.12.0 — 2026-05-12Final removal of the GDK wallet library.Arkade arkd v0.9.5 — 2026-05-11Client-lib wallet interface updates, breaking-changes documentation, single-key wallet signing fixes.Arkade TS SDK v0.4.25 — 2026-05-07Maintenance bump for the Arkade JavaScript SDK.NodeGuard 0.24.2 — 2026-05-14Fixes invoice-expiry calculation in rebalance flows. Check logs if rebalance operations have been timing out.ThunderHub v0.18.3 — 2026-05-15Bug-fix release in the 0.18.x line. (Subsequent 0.18.1-0.18.3 are CI/docker polish after the headline 0.18.0.)ThunderHub v0.18.0 — 2026-05-05Adds Taproot Assets support to the dashboard. The actual show story for ThunderHub this fortnight.Blink Mobile 2.4.44 — 2026-05-06Upgrades protobufjs (CVE-2026-41242 mitigation). Security patch.Fedimint SDK canary release — 2026-05-14React Native transport fix, persistent callback, RPC payload flattening. Canary channel.umbrelOS 1.7.3 — 2026-05-12DirtyFrag security patches: CVE-2026-43284 + CVE-2026-43500 in the Linux kernel. Mandatory.umbrelOS 1.7.2 — 2026-05-05CopyFail patch: CVE-2026-31431 in the Linux kernel. Mandatory.Tails 7.7.3 — 2026-05-12Emergency release: critical Linux kernel CVE fix (kernel 6.12.86 ships the Dirty Frag fix), plus Tor Browser and Tor client security fixes.Whirlpool Observer…

Alex Thorn talks with Matt Corallo, Bitcoin developer at Spiral, about debates over Bitcoin's development path, node implementations, and pathways and possibilities for mitigating the impact of a potential future cryptographically relevant quantum computer. Matt first contributed to Bitcoin Core in 2011 and today focuses on building tools for Bitcoin's Lightning Network. Alex also talks with Beimnet Abebe (Galaxy Trading) about rising inflation expectations, the new Fed chair, and tricky macro conditions. Participants, along with Galaxy Digital, hold a financial interest in Bitcoin (BTC). Galaxy regularly engages in buying and selling BTC, including hedging transactions, for its own proprietary accounts and on behalf of its counterparties. Galaxy also provides services to vehicles that invest in BTC.  If the value of such assets increases, those vehicles may benefit, and Galaxy's service fees may increase accordingly. The valuation in this communication is based on technical, fundamental, and market analysis and not on any formal valuation method. For more information, please refer to Galaxy's public filings and statements. Cryptocurrencies, including BTC and ZEC, are inherently volatile and risky and ultimate market movements may not align with this statement.   For additional risks related to digital assets, please refer to the risk factors contained in filings Galaxy Digital Inc. makes with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) from time to time, including its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, available at www.sec.gov. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.galaxy.com/research/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Saylor just broke Strategy's "NEVER SELL" Bitcoin rule. The $1.5B dividend math, the 11.5% yield, the Q1 -$12.5B net loss, and what it means for Canadian MSTR holders — explained.Michael Saylor told investors on Strategy's Q1 2026 earnings call that he will "probably sell some Bitcoin to pay a dividend, just to inoculate the market and send the message that we did it." Three days later he walked it back, saying the remark wasintended to "jam short-sellers and 'haters.'" Strategy holds 818,334 BTC at an average cost basis of $75,537. The annualized preferred dividend obligation is roughly $1.5 billion. Q1 net loss was $12.54 billion. Bitcoin briefly traded below $81,000 after the call.In this episode of the Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast:- The actual mechanism: buy with credit, let it appreciate, sell to fund preferreds- Why this isn't an MSTR "Ponzi" reveal — and why it kind of is- Sequans' 1,025 BTC sale, the $35.9M convertible-note pressure, and what "treasury reckoning" looks like in practice- Canada's first regulated CAD stablecoin: Tetra's CADD with Shopify and National Bank backing- Coinbase cuts 14% of staff for "AI-native pods" while the exchange goes down for an AWS chiller failure- Germany ends its 12-month Bitcoin tax exemption — €2B revenue target by 2027- The Netherlands prepares 36% tax on UNREALIZED Bitcoin gains by 2028- Bitcoin Core's first-ever memory-safety bug, CVE-2024-52911, quietly patched a year before public disclosure- Notable North: Alberta separation petition crosses 300k signatures, Honda walks from a $15B Ontario EV plant, Doug Ford sacks the Conestoga College board, Ottawa finally starts tracking which temporary residents have actually leftThe orange-pill takeaway: every "treasury company" model — Strategy, Sequans, the next wave — gets stress-tested when the dividends and debts come due in fiat. The companies that buy and never sell are betting that their cost of capital stayslower than Bitcoin's CAGR forever. Saylor just admitted that the bet has a release valve. Canadian retail and Canadian pensions are sitting on MSTR exposure; the next 12 months are the test of whether the model is genius or a glorified levered Bitcoin ETF..Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast- Website: https://canadianbitcoiners.com- X: @CanadianBTCPod- Subscribe & turn on notifications for the weekly orange-pill drop.————————————————————————————————SPONSORS■ easyDNS — Canadian-owned, ICANN-accredited registrar that has accepted Bitcoin since 2013. Domains, DNS, email,hosting, all without selling you out. Use promo code CBP Media for 50% off your first purchase, no limits.→ https://easydns.com■ Bull Bitcoin — Canada's non-custodial, Bitcoin-only exchange. Founded 2013 in Montreal. They never hold your keys;you self-custody from day one. CBP listeners get 25% off fees for life.→ https://app.bullbitcoin.com/registration/cbp■ 256 Heat — Hashrate heaters: Bitcoin miners purpose-built to heat a space. Every watt of electricity becomes heat AND hashrate, so you're warming your space and stacking sats at the same time. Custom solutions available. Tell them CBPsent you for a discount.→ https://256heat.com■ Bitcoin Mentor — One-on-one coaching to take you from "I bought some Bitcoin" to true self-sovereign ownership. Wallets, keys, collaborative custody, inheritance planning, node setup, the whole stack. 30-day money-back guarantee on every package.→ https://btcmentor.io/aff/joey————————————————————————————————FOLLOW THE SHOW■■ CBP — https://x.com/CanadianBTCPod■ Joey — https://x.com/joeytweeets■ Len — https://x.com/thebtcpricebot————————————————————————————————#Bitcoin #Saylor #Strategy #MSTR #Canadian

Saylor just broke Strategy's "NEVER SELL" Bitcoin rule. The $1.5B dividend math, the 11.5% yield, the Q1 -$12.5B net loss, and what it means for Canadian MSTR holders — explained.Michael Saylor told investors on Strategy's Q1 2026 earnings call that he will "probably sell some Bitcoin to pay a dividend, just to inoculate the market and send the message that we did it." Three days later he walked it back, saying the remark wasintended to "jam short-sellers and 'haters.'" Strategy holds 818,334 BTC at an average cost basis of $75,537. The annualized preferred dividend obligation is roughly $1.5 billion. Q1 net loss was $12.54 billion. Bitcoin briefly traded below $81,000 after the call.In this episode of the Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast:- The actual mechanism: buy with credit, let it appreciate, sell to fund preferreds- Why this isn't an MSTR "Ponzi" reveal — and why it kind of is- Sequans' 1,025 BTC sale, the $35.9M convertible-note pressure, and what "treasury reckoning" looks like in practice- Canada's first regulated CAD stablecoin: Tetra's CADD with Shopify and National Bank backing- Coinbase cuts 14% of staff for "AI-native pods" while the exchange goes down for an AWS chiller failure- Germany ends its 12-month Bitcoin tax exemption — €2B revenue target by 2027- The Netherlands prepares 36% tax on UNREALIZED Bitcoin gains by 2028- Bitcoin Core's first-ever memory-safety bug, CVE-2024-52911, quietly patched a year before public disclosure- Notable North: Alberta separation petition crosses 300k signatures, Honda walks from a $15B Ontario EV plant, Doug Ford sacks the Conestoga College board, Ottawa finally starts tracking which temporary residents have actually leftThe orange-pill takeaway: every "treasury company" model — Strategy, Sequans, the next wave — gets stress-tested when the dividends and debts come due in fiat. The companies that buy and never sell are betting that their cost of capital stayslower than Bitcoin's CAGR forever. Saylor just admitted that the bet has a release valve. Canadian retail and Canadian pensions are sitting on MSTR exposure; the next 12 months are the test of whether the model is genius or a glorified levered Bitcoin ETF..Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast- Website: https://canadianbitcoiners.com- X: @CanadianBTCPod- Subscribe & turn on notifications for the weekly orange-pill drop.————————————————————————————————SPONSORS■ easyDNS — Canadian-owned, ICANN-accredited registrar that has accepted Bitcoin since 2013. Domains, DNS, email,hosting, all without selling you out. Use promo code CBP Media for 50% off your first purchase, no limits.→ https://easydns.com■ Bull Bitcoin — Canada's non-custodial, Bitcoin-only exchange. Founded 2013 in Montreal. They never hold your keys;you self-custody from day one. CBP listeners get 25% off fees for life.→ https://app.bullbitcoin.com/registration/cbp■ 256 Heat — Hashrate heaters: Bitcoin miners purpose-built to heat a space. Every watt of electricity becomes heat AND hashrate, so you're warming your space and stacking sats at the same time. Custom solutions available. Tell them CBPsent you for a discount.→ https://256heat.com■ Bitcoin Mentor — One-on-one coaching to take you from "I bought some Bitcoin" to true self-sovereign ownership. Wallets, keys, collaborative custody, inheritance planning, node setup, the whole stack. 30-day money-back guarantee on every package.→ https://btcmentor.io/aff/joey————————————————————————————————FOLLOW THE SHOW■■ CBP — https://x.com/CanadianBTCPod■ Joey — https://x.com/joeytweeets■ Len — https://x.com/thebtcpricebot————————————————————————————————#Bitcoin #Saylor #Strategy #MSTR #Canadian

On this episode, we're back from Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas, where the real conference happened off stage. From quantum debates and AI pivots to Bitcoin astrology and open-source governance wars, we break down the conversations, vibes, and side quests that actually mattered.We discuss:- Bitcoin 2026 recap- Quantum debate & Project 11- Satoshi coins discourse- Paul Sztorc's eCash fork- Hodlonaut on Bitcoin Core governanceGet bonus content by subscribing to @hellmoneypod on X: https://x.com/hellmoneypod/creator-subscriptions/subscribeOr support the podcast by sending a BTC donation: bc1qztncp7lmcxdgude4px2vzh72p2yu2aud0eyzysORDINALS SATSCARDS: https://shop.inscribing.com/products/ordinals-satscardTIMESTAMPS0:00 Bitcoin 2026 recap7:56 K-pop, ABG discourse12:55 Erin's aura reading, nukes are fake18:52 Quantum & Bitcoin35:11 Hell Money meetup recap37:55 Everyone's pivoting to AI42:30 Reviewing Hodlonaut's Bitcoin Core article

Il lightning network funziona e i dati che ci arrivano sono confortanti. Su questa base un nuovo paper di Zeus suggerisce una nuova strada per irrobustire il network e farci impresa.Inoltre: il Sudafrica vuole approvare la prima legge che vieta la custodia diretta, un brutto hack subito da Bisq, arriva il debunkatore automatico di falsi miti su Bitcoin, e una ricerca getta ombre su Bitcoin Core.It's showtime!

What up vigilantes? What if you woke up one day to find your Bitcoin stack had doubled? That's the reality coming this August when Paul Sztorc launches the eCash hard fork. But while “free money” sounds great, the real story is a desperate attempt to save Bitcoin from a development culture that has started lying to itself. This isn't a giveaway. It's a rescue mission. The stigma around hard forks has been poisoning the well since the Bitcoin Cash drama. Back then it was a branding war, a fight over who owned the name. It got messy, it got toxic, and suddenly the very idea of forking became taboo. Sztorc isn't playing that game. He's running a different brand entirely (eCash, ecash.com), and he's not pretending to be Bitcoin. He's also not hitting the ground running with empty promises. The Drivechain code has been written, tested, and is runnable today on testnet at layer2labs.com/download. So what is Drivechain? It's a way to give the same 21 million coins access to unlimited optional sidechains. Layer 2s that share the original supply rather than minting new tokens. One sidechain for privacy. One for prediction markets. One for high-throughput payments. All pegged 1:1, all merge-mined back into Layer 1 so the miners get the fee revenue. No new “shitcoins” required to do the things people have been begging Bitcoin to do for a decade. This was already promised, by the way. Watch on: Odysee | YouTube | X | Rumble | Bitchute  When Blockstream raised money in 2014, sidechains were the headline. They pitched it, took the money, and quietly delivered Liquid, a federated multisig dressed up as a sidechain. The kind of “L2” we'd laugh at if Ethereum did it. Sztorc actually did the work they said they would do. Meanwhile, the gatekeeping in Bitcoin Core has gotten absurd. OP_CAT is 13 lines of code. Opt-in, ignorable, reversible. And they still won't merge it. BIP 300 (Drivechain itself) gets accused of “bringing shitcoins to Bitcoin,” which is the literal opposite of what it does. Geniuses like Jeremy Rubin have been pushed out. Lightning, or as Sztorc calls it, “Lightning Not Work,” sucks all the oxygen out of the room while failing to scale. The chief critic situation is even more telling. When Sztorc actually hired Peter Todd to write a paid critique, Todd went on stage at Baltic Honey Badger and claimed there was no code. Meaning he had never bothered to visit drivechain.info, where the download link sits at the top of the page. That's the level of seriousness Bitcoin's chief critics are operating at. The draft PRs to Core itself? Met with harassment, distractions, and irrelevant nonsense. Look at the scoreboard. Blocks are empty. Fees are nothing. Even Michael Saylor, the high priest of HODL, is barely above zero on his lifetime BTC investment, depending on the day (saylortracker.com doesn't lie). Miners are pivoting to AI. Real custody has been replaced by ETF shares and treasury company stock. We traded laser eyes for paper claims. The knee-jerk reaction will be to call eCash a “shitcoin.” That's exactly why Sztorc is giving people four months to think past it. This isn't a bet that eCash moons. It's a hedge against BTC collapsing into stagnation. If the devs keep refusing every upgrade while the network ossifies into a museum exhibit, you're going to need an off-ramp. A note for the maxis already typing. Sztorc is funding the launch by selling some of Satoshi's altruistically mined coins. Not anyone else's BTC, which isn't even possible. Yes, it's controversial. It's also what gives early supporters skin in the game so the fork launches with momentum instead of dying as another well-intentioned ghost chain. Come August, your BTC splits into two. You can sell one for more of the other. You can hold both. You can ignore the whole thing. But don't ignore it without looking first. Download the testnet at layer2labs.com/download, follow @truthcoin on X, and visit ecash.com. The post The Bitcoin Fork that Changes Everything appeared first on The Crypto Vigilante.

The "largest quantum attack on Bitcoin" just collapsed. Project Eleven paid 1 BTC for a 15-bit ECC break — but a classical computer does the same thing. Bitcoin's 256-bit security is untouched.A researcher won the Project Eleven Q-Day Prize for breaking a 15-bit elliptic curve key on a publicly accessible quantum computer, billed by the press as the "largest quantum attack on Bitcoin to date." Within 48 hours half the crypto press had it framed as Q-Day. The reality: a $300 laptop can break a 15-bit ECC key in well under a second. Bitcoin uses 256-bit ECC. The gap between 15 bits and 256 bits is roughly 2^241 — a number larger than the atoms in the observable universe. Q-Day is real as a research milestone. Q-Day is FUD as a Bitcoin threat headline today.On this episode we break down what Project Eleven actually proved, why the "1 BTC bounty" isn't what crypto media made it sound like, why Bitcoin's elliptic curve cryptography is nowhere close to being broken, and what's REALLY worth paying attention to this week — from the Litecoin MWEB 13-block reorg to the Bitcoin Core v30 wallet migration drama, the Bitcoin Knots vs. Core fork update, Shakepay's new BTC-backed loans, SEC Chair Atkins' "innovation" pivot, Kraken's 56 million IRS tax forms, and a $1.1 BILLION Canada Child Benefit story most Canadians missed this week. Plus, of course, Mark Carney's new wealth fund. What a time to be alive.

The "largest quantum attack on Bitcoin" just collapsed. Project Eleven paid 1 BTC for a 15-bit ECC break — but a classical computer does the same thing. Bitcoin's 256-bit security is untouched.A researcher won the Project Eleven Q-Day Prize for breaking a 15-bit elliptic curve key on a publicly accessible quantum computer, billed by the press as the "largest quantum attack on Bitcoin to date." Within 48 hours half the crypto press had it framed as Q-Day. The reality: a $300 laptop can break a 15-bit ECC key in well under a second. Bitcoin uses 256-bit ECC. The gap between 15 bits and 256 bits is roughly 2^241 — a number larger than the atoms in the observable universe. Q-Day is real as a research milestone. Q-Day is FUD as a Bitcoin threat headline today.On this episode we break down what Project Eleven actually proved, why the "1 BTC bounty" isn't what crypto media made it sound like, why Bitcoin's elliptic curve cryptography is nowhere close to being broken, and what's REALLY worth paying attention to this week — from the Litecoin MWEB 13-block reorg to the Bitcoin Core v30 wallet migration drama, the Bitcoin Knots vs. Core fork update, Shakepay's new BTC-backed loans, SEC Chair Atkins' "innovation" pivot, Kraken's 56 million IRS tax forms, and a $1.1 BILLION Canada Child Benefit story most Canadians missed this week. Plus, of course, Mark Carney's new wealth fund. What a time to be alive.

Marty sits down with Jack Kruse to discuss the convergence of political power and financial corruption threatening Bitcoin, the existential danger of base‑chain pollution that most plebs overlook, and the shocking ties between early developer Adam Back and Jeffrey Epstein. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02930-9 STACK SATS hat: https://tftcmerch.io/ Our newsletter: https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ TFTC Elite (Ad-free & Discord): https://www.tftc.io/#/portal/signup/ Discord: https://discord.gg/VJ2dABShBz Opportunity Cost Extension: https://www.opportunitycost.app/ Shoutout to our sponsors: Bitkey https://bitkey.world/ Bitcoin 2026 - Las Vegas http://bit.ly/3NA9xQh OPNEXT https://tinyurl.com/tftc2026 CrowdHealth https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/tftc Unchained https://unchained.com/tftc/ Salt of the Earth: https://drinksote.com/tftc Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TFTC21/videos Clips YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQcW3jxfQfEUS8kqR5pJtQ Website https://tftc.io/ Newsletter tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ Twitter https://twitter.com/tftc21 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tftc.io/ Nostr https://primal.net/tftc Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/martybent Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://www.tftc.io/tag/podcasts/

If Satoshi Nakamoto handed the keys to a single successor, is the network truly decentralized? We go deep into uncomfortable questions about who controls the Bitcoin blockchain and how the power to merge code has shifted since the Genesis block. Juan Galt (@JuanSGalt)  joins us in El Zonte to break down the history of the maintainer role. He proves that the security of our money depends on janitorial consensus rather than a single lead developer.We explore the cypherpunk origins of the protocol, looking at the private correspondence between Satoshi and Hal Finney. This lineage shows how an early culture of cryptography evolved into the modern GitHub repository. Understanding this is essential to knowing how Bitcoin survived the exit of its creator without a corporate takeover.The episode dives into the high stakes world of the private key and the nightmare of the early wallet.dat era. Juan shares stories of recovering seven figures of lost coins, highlighting the shift from 2010 hurdles to modern recovery standards. This was a fundamental upgrade for anyone holding digital gold as a lifelong savings account, moving us toward a robust sovereign standard.Building a circular economy requires a payments interface that works for a local pupuseria as well as a Wall Street fund. We discuss early adoption friction in Mexico and El Salvador, moving from the guy with the Bitcoin phone to modern tools that make daily commerce possible. It is a raw look at moving Bitcoin from a speculative asset to a local currency.Finally, we look at the internal decentralization of the Core team and how maintainers are elected without a CEO. From the Trusted Keys PGP system to the threats of quantum computing, we analyze the protocol's ability to stay hardened. This is a masterclass in the Proof of Work required to maintain the most secure financial network in history. It is about verifying code rather than trusting a person.—Bitcoin Beach TeamConnect and Learn more about Juan Galt:X: https://x.com/JuanSGaltBitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/authors/juan-galtYT: https://www.youtube.com/@BitcoinMagazineLifeboat: https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.juan.galtCompany: https://www.satlantis.io/Support and follow Bitcoin Beach:X: https://www.twitter.com/BitcoinBeach IG: https://www.instagram.com/bitcoinbeach_sv TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livefrombitcoinbeach Web: https://www.bitcoinbeach.com STAY AT BITCOIN BEACHhttps://www.stayatbitcoinbeach.com/punta-mango-villasBrowse through this quick guide to learn more about the episode:00:00 Intro06:01 Why is the "Juan Galt" namesake a high-signal filter for Bitcoiners?10:39 What was the Toronto Decentral hub like before the Ethereum fork?14:19 What can we learn from the "Galt's Gulch" Mexico experiment?21:10 How can you recover seven-figure Bitcoin from a legacy wallet?23:38 Why was the BIP-39 seed phrase a leap for Bitcoin self-custody?36:18 How did Satoshi manage the maintainer transition to Gavin Andresen?45:45 Why did Bitcoin move to GitHub and the "Trusted Keys" PGP system?53:11 How does Bitcoin achieve consensus without a CEO or leader?59:02 Is the Bitcoin protocol truly hardened against 2026 quantum threats?Live From Bitcoin Beach

Justin, a prolific contributor to the Fedimint open source project, returns for a six month update. Fedimint is an open protocol providing easy to use, private, programmable, and offline bitcoin payments using bitcoin powered federated chaumian ecash.Justin on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqspg8fq209jj56663d2n6r9ehkyjffy7rkqqejfdwvtwzva426avkqxtxxuvFedimint Website: https://fedimint.org/Fedimint on X: https://x.com/fedimintThe Ecash App: https://ecash.love/Fedimint Observer: https://observer.fedimint.org/ Bitcoin Mints: https://bitcoinmints.com/Iroh: https://www.iroh.computer/EPISODE: 198BLOCK: 944073PRICE: 1466 sats per dollar(02:06) Justin on Fedimint updates since last visit(03:20) Ecash App vision as a Fedimint reference client(04:18) Wallet features: on-chain, lightning, ecash, and nostr integrations(06:01) Fedimint 101: federations, guardians, and multisig trust model(07:55) Uptime vs. rug risk and Byzantine fault tolerance in practice(09:18) Making guardianship easier and raising operational reliability(10:14) Ecash App status, platforms, backups via nostr, and seed UX(13:16) Mint/federation selection challenges and web-of-trust ideas(15:39) Observability tools and on-chain vs. Lightning differences(16:20) Running a Guardian on Start9: setup and backups(19:39) Networking with Iroh: DNS removal, privacy, and Tor/VPN plans(23:14) Lightning gateways: roles, trust, liquidity, and multi-federation ops(27:59) Gateway UX: multiple gateways, auto-switching, and agents help(29:01) Gateway pairing and funding flows for Start9 deployments(32:24) Guardians on Android phones: why, how, and trade-offs(37:30) Blockchain backends: Bitcoin Core vs. Esplora defaults(39:30) Mobile data, heat, and practical considerations(39:34) Agentic payments and why eCash fits well for agents(43:40) Local communities, AI models, and community services vision(46:06) Real-world adoption, roadmap, modules, and BOLT12 plans(48:50) BOLT12 receive-side challenges and trust model nuances(50:26) Pragmatic trust, permissioned gateways, and next steps(50:37) How listeners can help and contact info(51:18) Start9 v0.4.0 update chatter and flashing war stories(53:01) Closing thoughts, progress praise, and sign-offmore info on the show: https://citadeldispatch.comlearn more about me: https://odell.xyzmonitor the situation: https://citadelwire.com

Stephan Livera and Pieter Wuille discuss Cluster Mempool for Bitcoin Core, its motivations, and its implications for Bitcoin users and miners. Where does the current mempool design have issues? Why is it important to maintain a transparent and reliable open mempool? Pieter Wuille also explains the complexities of transaction clustering and how the new framework improves efficiency and helps keep bitcoin mining open. Timestamps:(00:00) - Intro(01:05) - What is Cluster Mempool?(03:05) - What is its impact on everyday Bitcoin users?(06:21) - How does the mempool work today?(11:52) - Current mempool heuristics and issues(16:37) - Censorship resistance and economic demand(22:56) - Practical implications for exchanges & miners(26:12) - How does cluster mempool work?(29:29) - Transaction clusters & mempool dynamics(37:27) - Should mempools align across the node network?(43:47) - What about other implementations of Bitcoin?(48:17) - Other interesting areas for bitcoin development(52:11) - Closing thoughtsLinks: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33629 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/print/the-core-issue-cluster-mempool-problems-are-easier-in-chunks https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/an-overview-of-the-cluster-mempool-proposal/393 https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/mempool-incentive-compatibility/553 Stephan Livera links:Follow me on X: @stephanliveraSubscribe to the podcastSubscribe to Substack

Matt Corallo says “the community that exists at the time” will make decisions on how Bitcoin deals with the threat of quantum computing. Thank you to our sponsors! ⁠Figure⁠ ⁠Crypto Tax Girl⁠ ⁠Fuse: The Energy Network⁠ When it comes to the quantum computing threat to crypto, the focus is often on Bitcoin and for good reason. The blockchain lacks a defined governance structure and the vulnerability around Satoshi's and other abandoned and lost coins is far greater than on any other chain. Furthermore, influential figures like Nic Carter have accused developers of sleeping at the wheel. Bitcoin Core contributor Matt Corallo argues that it won't take much to make the network quantum-resistant and, contrary to popular narrative, says work is already underway. Find out why Corallo says quantum-proofing Bitcoin requires only two steps ”you burn old lost coins, you burn anyone who hasn't migrated.” Guest: ⁠Matt Corallo, Open Source Engineer at Block/Spiral Links: Unchained: ⁠Why Bitcoin Developers Are Not Incentivized to Talk About the Quantum Threat⁠ ⁠Q-Day Is Imminent. Can Bitcoin Survive the Quantum Threat?⁠ ⁠Solana Deploys Post-Quantum Signatures on Testnet⁠ ⁠Cracking Bitcoin Encryption Is Getting Much Easier, Google Says Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Figure is giving away $25,000 in USDC. Deposit into Democratized Prime, earn ~9% APY hourly—and every $1 you keep in for 25 days is 1 entry. Enter here --- Bitcoin slid toward $60,000 on Feb. 5 in a brutal, cross-asset selloff that hit gold, equities, and crypto alike. With leverage unwinding and basis trades breaking, long-time bitcoin holders are distributing to institutional buyers who, by 13F data, are mostly underwater. The mood across digital assets is bleak. Against that backdrop, Nic Carter of Castle Island Ventures argues that key Bitcoin narratives have quietly failed—and warns that developers' inaction on quantum risk could open the door to institutional control. If devs don't act, Carter says ETF giants like BlackRock will. The panel then widens the lens: declaring the token-centric VC model dead, debating whether AI now rivals the industrial revolution, and stress-testing it all across topics ranging from Solana vs. Hyperliquid to Japan's political shift and MrBeast's fintech play. --- If you want your crypto taxes done carefully — not guessed — Crypto Tax Girl is offering $100 off one-on-one crypto tax services. Their team focuses solely on crypto and has been helping investors navigate tax season since 2017. Save $100 here Hosts: Ram Ahluwalia, CFA, CEO and Founder of Lumida Austin Campbell, NYU Stern professor and founder and managing partner of Zero Knowledge Consulting Christopher Perkins, Managing Partner and President of CoinFund Guest: Nic Carter, Founding Partner at Castle Island Ventures Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices