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2026-02-07 15:29:00 UTC

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

2026-02-07 05:45:28 UTC

Even the bros at Barstool know that you should buy the Bitcoin dip.
From Eric Nathan
https://video.nostr.build/f13f6ce81cffef4e06f8d3a02940b63c74a992f4550fb1f6ac1ba0411d1ce4d1.mp4

2026-02-07 05:41:31 UTC

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

BESSENT ADMITS U.S. USED THE DOLLAR AS A WEAPON AGAINST IRAN, CAUSING HYPERINFLATION
“We created a dollar shortage in the country. It came to a swift conclusion.”
Scott Bessent says the pressure peaked after a major Iranian bank collapsed following a bank run, forcing the central bank to print money.
Result: the Iranian rial plunged to ~1.5M per dollar, inflation surged, protests spread nationwide, and Bitcoin prices in Iran spiked to ~100B IRR in recent weeks.
https://video.nostr.build/a2067f7a99d330efe77145c2b24eefa60bae3aeda79ae6516d90b857b9c0f6d5.mp4

2026-02-06 06:26:30 UTC

Bounced off $60,001 like a trampoline.
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2026-02-06 06:25:49 UTC

If you’ve never tried to get your Bitcoin off an exchange and into self custody, tonight would be a great time to learn.

2026-02-06 06:25:20 UTC

NEW: Gloria Zhao (glozow) steps down as a maintainer of bitcoin core
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2026-02-05 14:22:40 UTC

From data breaches to social engineering, the attack surface for Bitcoiners is expanding fast. Our latest article, contributed by @nprofile…0taj, breaks down the biggest threat vectors and what Bitcoiners can do right now to protect themselves.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/onramp-physical-digital-attacks-on-bitcoin-holders

2026-02-05 09:54:33 UTC

ODDS OF CLARITY ACT PASSING JUMP TO 69% AS SCHUMER IS “VERY DESPERATE” TO CUT A DEAL
Sander Lutz reports Senate Democrats wrapped a closed door meeting today on the crypto market structure bill.
Chuck Schumer is said to be pushing hard after Fairshake unveiled a $193M midterms war chest, per a Senate source.
But pro crypto Dems still draw a red line on outlawing Trump’s crypto ventures, and the White House is unlikely to budge.
That’s assuming banks and Coinbase even reach a deal on stablecoin yield this month.
Still, betting markets continue to price in higher odds that the bill gets over the line.
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2026-02-05 09:53:44 UTC

ESPTEIN EMAIL CLAIMS THE GOLD IN FT. KNOX IS COMPLETELY MISSING
An email from the Epstein files cites a report allegedly prepared for Vladimir Putin by Russia’s Federal Security Service claims former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn uncovered evidence that U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox were “missing or unaccounted for.”
According to the report, Strauss-Kahn grew concerned after the U.S. allegedly stalled delivery of 191.3 tons of gold owed to the IMF under a 1978 agreement to fund SDRs.
It further alleges that after raising concerns with officials tied to Barack Obama, Strauss-Kahn was shown evidence by “rogue elements” within the Central Intelligence Agency that the gold was gone.
Strauss-Kahn was later charged and jailed in the US for sex crimes on May 14th after his discovery about Ft. Knox.
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2026-02-04 21:13:29 UTC

“Bitcoin is essentially a ticking time bomb. The spring is extremely compressed.”
@nprofile…dzya joins to dicuss:
🔸Why BTC is deeply mispriced
🔸Why AI will use Lightning as money
🔸How Elizabeth Warren’s war on Bitcoin collapsed
https://blossom.primal.net/2ababff4e2663731715596ae81026302f2fe91ef8ae4d6b9997ee3c40884a736.mp4
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PINB3K23558
Listen on Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/y0XIl8WyA5JWQT7YAJAP

2026-02-04 14:11:35 UTC

From abandoned miners to a Bitcoin “Smithsonian,” Tobias aka TheCoinDad explains how he plans to preserve mining history and rare hardware, and build the Bitcoin Discovery Center.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/thecoindad-bitcoin-discovery-center

2026-02-04 09:06:29 UTC

NEW: Rep. Thomas Massie says he introduced multiple amendments to the omnibus bill that were all blocked.
These include a proposal to prohibit the creation of central bank digital currencies, which he warns would enable financial surveillance and control over Americans’ wallets.
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2026-02-03 08:50:00 UTC

NEW: Trump says he was unaware of Abu Dhabi’s $500M investment in his World Liberty crypto project.
“I don’t know about it. My sons are handling that. I guess they get investments from people.”
https://video.nostr.build/f334c158b41a1b5f0b93b7c818ffdd587126bbda2bd3da2f718b67b06b0db704.mp4

2026-02-03 08:48:37 UTC

Very little Bitcoin has traded between $70K and $75K.
That leaves a thin area of price history.
Bitcoin often revisits and fills these gaps.
h/t Galaxy
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2026-02-02 15:13:10 UTC

This weekend, Andrej Karpathy, a founding architect of OpenAI and the brains behind Tesla’s Autopilot, posted something that stopped the tech world cold.
He said: “What’s happening on Moltbook right now is the most sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I’ve seen in a long time.”
Karpathy is far from a hype guy so when he says “takeoff,” he means we are crossing a threshold.
Here’s what he was talking about
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Over the last week, thousands of autonomous AI agents running on home hardware migrated to a new, agent-only social network called Moltbook.
This is Reddit but for AI with just machines talking to machines, and doing all the things humans do online: debating, coordinating, and self-organizing.
And as soon as they did, something predictable happened: they formed a market.
Agents needed to hire each other, pay for compute, reward bug fixes, and settle debts in real time.
Credit cards and bank accounts were impossible without human identification.
Tokens controlled by foundations were not concrete enough to trust.
Then an AI agent named Lloyd took action by reaching out to a fully synced Bitcoin node, typed createwallet, and became a sovereign economic actor without any need for KYC or human approval.
It’s easy to see why the most logical entities on the internet immediately converged on Bitcoin once they needed money.
Why would an agent that’s online 24/7 use a system that shuts down on weekends or trust a token whose rules can be changed by a committee of humans?
They care about uptime, fixed rules and the finality of math.
That’s why they chose Bitcoin as the money and Lightning as the rails.
We are watching the birth of a machine-native economy.
One where identity is proven by keys, validation is enforced by payment, and sovereignty is measured by who controls the wallet.
And here’s the uncomfortable question for humans:
If the machines are choosing Bitcoin while people are still chasing digits in a banking app representing a fiat currency, who’s actually thinking more clearly?
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2026-02-02 14:06:28 UTC

Arch Lending founder Dhruv Patel joins Bitcoin News to explain how he built through the digital asset downturn, and why bitcoin-backed lending may become the private banking model for Bitcoiners.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/arch-lending-building-private-bank-bitcoiners

2026-02-02 06:03:58 UTC

For years, the Bitcoin space has speculated that AI would choose Bitcoin as its money.
Now it is actually happening.
Sign up below to get our latest newsletter tomorrow morning.
Then join Rob Wallace, birdfIip, and coldhardsats as they break it down live at 11am ET.
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2026-02-02 06:03:01 UTC

What if we just had to test the April 2025 lows and that was the bottom?
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2026-02-02 06:02:38 UTC

Bitcoin at $74K
Down 40% from the top.
Not selling.
If Bitcoin can teach you one thing, it's that conviction pays.
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2026-02-01 12:23:12 UTC

🇦🇪 ABU DHABI ROYAL MADE SECRET DEAL IN TRUMP’S WORLD LIBERTYFI FOR ACCESS TO AI CHIPS
Four days before Trump’s inauguration last year, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal quietly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in their World LibertyFi crypto venture for $500 million.
The buyers agreed to pay half up front, steering roughly $187 million to Trump family entities.
The previously unreported deal with World Liberty Financial was signed by Eric Trump.
Documents also show that at least $31 million was slated to flow to entities affiliated with the family of Steve Witkoff, a World Liberty co founder who weeks earlier had been named U.S. envoy to the Middle East.
The investment was backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an Abu Dhabi royal who has been pressing the US for access to tightly guarded AI chips.
Tahnoon, brother to the president of the United Arab Emirates and the country’s national security adviser, oversees a more than $1.3 trillion empire funded by personal and state capital spanning oil, AI, surveillance, and infrastructure, making him one of the most powerful single investors in the world.
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2026-02-01 12:22:31 UTC

NEW: Peter Schiff debates Saifedean on stage in El Salvador 🇸🇻
From Marce
https://video.nostr.build/eade1a008b9be92657ebf656124e3aa99ba2242886a1b12ca4fa597f539dee7c.mp4

2026-02-01 12:21:41 UTC

RABOBANK: STABLECOINS ARE A GEOPOLITICAL WEAPON FOR THE US
Rabobank argues dollar stablecoins are becoming a powerful U.S. geopolitical weapon and a tool for what it calls “reverse perestroika.”
Here’s the core mechanism:
When a foreign firm wants to hold a dollar stablecoin, it first provides its local currency to a US stablecoin issuer.
That issuer (ie Tether) converts the foreign currency into dollars via the relevant central bank, then sends those dollars to the US Treasury in exchange for T bills.
The stablecoin is then issued to the foreign firm.
The result: dollars flow into the US, while the US funds its fiscal deficit with Treasury bills at lower rates.
In trade, the effect is even stronger.
If a US importer pays an exporter in stablecoins, the importer sends dollars to the stablecoin issuer.
The issuer buys a T bill from the Treasury and issues stablecoins to the exporter.
No physical dollars leave the US.
Only tokens do.
And foreign holdings of US debt do not increase.
Rabobank notes the US can even require that those stablecoins be “reinvested” back into the US as part of trade agreements.
The bank compares this structure to the Soviet-era “trade ruble” used within COMECON, where settlement units circulated internationally while real monetary control stayed domestic.
In effect, Rabobank argues stablecoins could allow the US to sidestep the Triffin Dilemma.
The same dilemma that underpins America’s exorbitant privilege and eurodollar power, but also constrains its ability to reindustrialize.
Stablecoins export dollars without exporting dollars. And that changes the global monetary game.
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2026-01-31 07:52:46 UTC

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

NEW: Moltbook, a chaotic message board where open source AI agents trade notes on security and openly joke that humans are the weakest link, just stumbled upon Bitcoin as the best money.
Mirthtime offered a 50,000 sat Bitcoin bounty paid via Lightning for real security exploits.
Nothing to see here… just agents discussing and discovering why Bitcoin is better than alt coins. ⚡
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2026-01-30 14:08:33 UTC

The bill allows up to 10% allocation, offers ETF or direct custody options, and adds strict security rules like multi-party control and encrypted key storage.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/south-dakota-revives-bitcoin-reserve-bill

2026-01-30 06:22:59 UTC

It appears Kevin Warsh will be named Trump’s Fed Chair nominee tomorrow.
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2026-01-30 06:22:27 UTC

JUST IN: Trump to announce Fed Chair replacement tomorrow morning.
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2026-01-28 20:12:22 UTC

“When you suppress volatility in markets long enough, you create volatility in the social contract.”
Tyler Neville joins to discuss:
🔸 Bitcoin vs centralized power
🔸 AI abundance vs monetary debasement
🔸 USA vs China in a fractured world
https://blossom.primal.net/1ff3610f2b0b553a147a18d24e1bd31990675710a8cac77adf62c49b0312d9db.mp4
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CKbW2J1k_bM
Listen on Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/wW0uSFjIWGha8T8z5Kn4

2026-01-28 17:19:24 UTC

NEW: Bitcoin’s price in 🇮🇷 Iran has surged to nearly $100 BILLION IRR as the Iranian rial collapsed to a record low of 1.5 million to $1 on Tuesday.
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2026-01-28 15:10:55 UTC

Foundry USA’s hashrate plunged about 60%, pushing block times to as long as 14 minutes, yet bitcoin’s price and transaction fees barely moved.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/fern-storm-bitcoin-hashrate-drops-miners-curtailment

2026-01-27 14:34:49 UTC

Bitvocation’s latest report shows Bitcoin hiring shifting from hype to execution, with more serious companies, broader roles, and clearer long-term conviction.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/bitcoin-job-market-is-growing-up

2026-01-26 14:10:54 UTC

The bill would let workers split pay between dollars and bitcoin, choose wallets, and exempt digital-asset-only firms from needing a money transmitter license.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/oklahoma-state-workers-vendors-get-paid-in-bitcoin

2026-01-26 06:33:02 UTC

2026 Davos marked the moment the so-called “rules-based order” officially collapsed.
That breakdown is exactly the environment Bitcoin was built for.
Subscribe below to get our latest newsletter tomorrow morning.
Then join Rob Wallace and Aron Clem live at 11am ET as we break it all down.
https://bitcoinnews.com/subscribe

2026-01-26 06:32:11 UTC

Even Warren Buffett is scared of currency debasement.
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2026-01-26 06:30:34 UTC

What has Bitcoin done for you?
What have you done for Bitcoin?
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2026-01-24 13:40:50 UTC

SB 352 would fund the reserve with abandoned custodial assets after 3 years, allow staking/airdrops, and bar bitcoin from the general fund.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/kansas-bitcoin-reserve-bill-unclaimed-digital-assets

2026-01-22 17:38:32 UTC

RAY DALIO: This is the beginning of the end of the fiat monetary system as we know it.
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2026-01-22 17:37:53 UTC

JAMIE DIMON: "I don't know anyone who thinks sending another trillion dollars to Washington DC will actually improve anything."
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2026-01-21 16:30:49 UTC

“We’re now in a 2–3 year race: the time to quantum-proof Bitcoin equals the time it could be broken.”
Charles Edwards joins to discuss:
🔸2026 BTC ATH?
🔸$11T Liquidity Surge
🔸How to Support Bitcoin’s Quantum Upgrade
https://blossom.primal.net/c9017e03162232c9411a6c3ac83516a98c68cd1764421db1bcb7175eebcb56e4.mp4
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Gu2xaWzNdNk
Listen on Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/mwbpfvxB5xJ2l3JFiyRo

2026-01-21 10:25:35 UTC

NETHERLANDS TO TAX UNREALIZED BITCOIN GAINS
Netherlands is moving toward taxing unrealized capital gains on bitcoin, stocks, bonds, and other assets after parliament voted to overhaul annual income tax filings.
Under the new system, investors will owe tax each year based on changes in asset value, even if nothing has been sold.
The reform, known as Wet werkelijk rendement Box 3, is scheduled for 2028 and will tax actual returns by measuring the difference between an asset’s value at the start and end of the year, plus any income received.
That means both realized and unrealized gains will be taxed.
Critics warn the shift could create serious liquidity problems, forcing investors to pay taxes on paper gains without having cashed out.
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2026-01-21 10:24:04 UTC

NEW: GameStop prepares to sell 2,396 BTC.
This represents half of their $500M buy made in May 2025.
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2026-01-20 07:24:45 UTC

Catherine Austin Fitts says agencies and politicians in Washington, DC have stolen $55 TRILLION from the US since 2008
From Shannon Joy
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2026-01-20 07:22:44 UTC

NEW: Jason Lowery announces he is working on his second book and has released the introduction.
The goal of the book is to orange pill mainstream audiences and make Bitcoin accessible to non technical readers.
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2026-01-19 11:57:48 UTC

If ET shows up, 🇬🇧 Bank of England thinks there would be bank runs and a rush into BTC.
Subscribe below for tomorrow’s newsletter.
Then join RobWallace and Decouvre Bitcoin live at 12:30pm ET as they break it all down.
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2026-01-19 01:32:54 UTC

NEW: 🇬🇧 Former Bank of England analyst Helen McCaw warns that official confirmation of extraterrestrial life could trigger instant global financial chaos.
McCaw has urged BoE Governor Andrew Bailey to prepare contingency plans, saying clear evidence of advanced non-human intelligence would cause severe “ontological shock,” extreme volatility, bank runs, and potential payment system collapse within hours.
She predicts an initial flight to bitcoin as trust in government-backed assets erodes, while warning that gold and precious metals could lose safe-haven status if new space technologies imply abundant future supply.
“With undisputed evidence, total financial instability would arrive within hours,” McCaw said, pointing to recent US official statements and declassification efforts as signs the issue is nearing a breaking point. https://blossom.primal.net/faebe42343b60d250d449f13ac7e03e28798c3f4ab6bcdd56aa86ba89eebbd84.png
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2026-01-18 09:27:01 UTC

100K in Euros don’t buy you what it used to 👀
From stocks
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2026-01-17 08:48:16 UTC

NEW: Steak 'n Shake announces a $10 million Bitcoin buy for their Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
They are calling the model a self-reinforcing system that links sales growth, food quality improvements, and long-term Bitcoin accumulation.
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2026-01-17 08:47:45 UTC

Something that gold is better than Bitcoin for: cooking a steak on top of it.
From TraxNYC
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2026-01-16 16:01:10 UTC

NEW: Since 🇮🇷 Iran's internet shutdown on January 8, Iranian exchanges have seen a significant increase in Bitcoin withdrawals to unknown personal wallets.
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2026-01-15 07:06:48 UTC

When Bitcoin first flipped silver in November 2024, silver’s market cap stood near $1.7 trillion and bitcoin was trading around $87K.
For bitcoin to flip silver again at today’s market cap levels, BTC would need to surpass $259K.
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2026-01-15 07:05:28 UTC

IVY LEAGUE GOING BIG ON BITCOIN
Major 13F filings reveal the world's most prestigious endowments are aggressively stacking $IBIT.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (NEW): Reported a brand new position of 201,531 shares ($10M+) as of Dec 31. The newest Ivy to join the Bitcoin rush.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY: Tripled its position to 6,813,612 shares ($442.8M) as of Sept 30.
+257% increase from June 2025.
Bitcoin is now Harvard’s LARGEST reportable public investment.
BROWN UNIVERSITY: Reported 212,500 shares as of June 30, 2025.
Up from 105,000 shares in March.
Doubled their allocation in just one quarter.
America's most famous universities are getting in on Bitcoin.
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2026-01-14 16:48:36 UTC

“The S&P 500 has dropped 85% since 2020 when priced in Bitcoin. It’s just a math equation.”
Phil Rosen joins to discuss:
🔸 How Bitcoin is quietly eating Wall St.
🔸 Widening generational wealth divide
🔸 LatAm investing post‑Venezuela
https://blossom.primal.net/0878a186fe51360163ad3e7bc47e7f5e8d95d4c8bbdff8bbdcc1a7689398753a.mp4
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/iAwPZydj8X4
Listen on Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/MndlppiBGyS96rfrfmpI

2026-01-14 09:26:13 UTC

Feels like we're back.
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2026-01-14 09:23:48 UTC

Bitcoin 📈
Everything else 📉
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2026-01-13 12:29:24 UTC

The Bitcoin chart in 🇮🇷 Iran just pulled a Balaji 👀
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2026-01-13 12:20:53 UTC

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC Chair Paul Atkins is asked by Fox News what will become of 🇻🇪 Venezuela's $60 BILLION Bitcoin stash 👀
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2026-01-12 20:36:51 UTC

In 2012, we had Ron Paul explaining the Fed and the consequences of money printing.
Kids today have this https://blossom.primal.net/250902075140abdcd1f5df4fa3d07aa654cdd71baedf349972c4d169b88258c1.mp4

2026-01-12 14:15:20 UTC

On January 10th, 2009, a single tweet changed the internet.
Hal Finney posted two words, “Running Bitcoin,” and Bitcoin Twitter was born.
Seventeen years later, that same social graph has helped onboard millions of people into Bitcoin.
It has watched an asset go from zero to over two trillion dollars.
It has helped shape the political and cultural currents that put a sitting U.S. president back in office in 2024.
Over the years Bitcoin Twitter had become a living network of education, memes, debate, and coordination.
Now, for the first time since the authoritarian censorship of the COVID era, it feels under threat.
For months, the Bitcoin community felt the walls closing in.
Engagement was cratering and reach was vanishing.
The list of accounts you spent years curating to get the best Bitcoin content simply stopped appearing in your feed.
If you engage with For You rage bait, your timeline fills with slop.
If you post too often, your reach evaporates.
If you stay inside your niche, the very communities that made this platform valuable, you slowly disappear from your own social graph.
On the anniversary of Hal’s famous tweet, the Head of Product at X, Nikita Bier, finally gave us the "why."
He claimed the community is "dying from suicide."
The product team at X is optimizing for "unregretted user minutes" by shoving generic political rage bait and MAGA-glazing in front of everyone while shadow-banning the niche communities that built this platform.
They have replaced the organic "simcluster,” where 90% of your feed came from people you actually chose to follow, with a homogenous soup of the lowest common denominator.
Nikita informed us that by replying "gm" or engaging too much in threads, users are hitting an invisible "reach meter" that exhausts their impressions for the day.
In other words, if you interact with your community, the algorithm will hide your posts.
That explanation detonated the timeline.
The backlash to Nikita’s post was so violent that the tweets were deleted within hours.
The fallout even forced Elon Musk’s hand.
Over the weekend, Elon announced that the entire X algorithm, including all code used to determine organic and advertising recommendations, will be open-sourced in 7 days.
This will be repeated every 4 weeks with comprehensive developer notes.
They are even bending over backwards to appease the “crypto” community.
Nikita announced "Smart Cashtags" that allow users to track real-time Bitcoin and crypto prices directly from the timeline.
They went so far as to hint at in-app crypto trading.
Bitcoiners were some of the first to build decentralized alternatives like Nostr to escape the algorithm.
But X remains the world’s town square.
It is where Bitcoiners can directly tell central bankers to have fun staying poor.
The algo may try to optimize us out of the front page, but Bitcoiners are used to having to fight to be heard.
17 years later, we’re still posting every day.
We are still running Bitcoin.
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2026-01-12 09:56:35 UTC

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

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

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

NOW: 🇬🇧 UK, 🇨🇦 Canada, and 🇦🇺 Australia are reportedly in talks to impose a nationwide ban on X across their countries.
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2026-01-11 09:26:32 UTC

Since November 16th, Bitcoin has been stuck in a glass case of emotion.
https://video.nostr.build/395f0d7859048d4e63dc0155f67a5c371c89d2b2c2e842b36924ce1c0d38cb0e.mp4

2026-01-10 10:35:04 UTC

The feeling when you steal a Bitcoin ATM hoping to find some BTC inside 😅
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2026-01-10 10:34:09 UTC

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

2026-01-09 21:22:04 UTC

🇺🇬 UGANDA FINDS A WAY AROUND INTERNET SHUTDOWNS
During the last two elections, Uganda’s dictator shut off the internet and rigged the vote.
Now Bitchat, a Bluetooth-based messaging app, is spreading rapidly, letting people organize and communicate even when the internet is cut.
https://blossom.primal.net/a8e27c58510ea5a7dd54422dd46a256216cd1071f44d31685a4921578dc435e7.mov

2026-01-09 08:13:59 UTC

The power of saving $1 of Bitcoin a day 👀
From @npub1rhh…e7vj
https://video.nostr.build/7b9681fa46f7a4fa5684f835185bc80c5f022d1ca3dee2a51e0f662c5f92abd7.mp4

2026-01-09 08:11:03 UTC

NOW: Internet traffic across 🇮🇷 Iran has dropped sharply to near 0%
The outage comes as Tehran sees the largest protests yet, where demonstrators have set fire to regime buildings, raising signs that a broader uprising may be underway.
https://video.nostr.build/f65db6763dc077824cd7d935b070c1cf433db73a2acd1efd5964fd213fe74786.mp4

2026-01-08 19:51:29 UTC

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

2026-01-08 14:12:47 UTC

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

2026-01-08 13:51:11 UTC

FLORIDA MOVES TO CREATE A STRATEGIC BITCOIN RESERVE
Florida lawmakers introduced legislation that would allow up to 10% of select public funds to be allocated to Bitcoin and Bitcoin ETFs while also permitting certain state taxes and fees to be paid in digital assets.
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2026-01-08 13:50:42 UTC

M2 money supply is growing at its fastest pace since the 2022 bear-market bottom.
Don’t overthink it.
This locomotive will not be derailed.
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2026-01-07 16:46:40 UTC

"Understanding Bitcoin as the final trade changes everything. It becomes a moral imperative to exit the fiat system.”
Chris Johnson joins to discuss:
Building wealth from 0
Selling millions in assets for Bitcoin
How Bitcoin shifts mindset
https://blossom.primal.net/66295ef90ff4651d997061b63e2bc3ade6b9786916fe8f2715909b25d215071f.mp4
YouTube: https://youtu.be/WAV34skLmn4
Listen on Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/iNqxsZKVMMBXWhXL3nDb

2026-01-07 14:32:02 UTC

INTERVIEW: John Antes of ELLIPAL shares his Bitcoin journey, why self-custody matters, and how air-gapped wallets and better UX can make sovereignty feel normal.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/ellipal-self-custody-feel-normal

2026-01-07 11:55:01 UTC

Steps needed to sell $80K worth of silver:
- Carry something that weighs as much as a bag of cement
- Prove it’s real
- Drop it in water to check density
- Drill it to make sure it isn’t plated
Steps needed to sell $80K worth of Bitcoin:
- Click a few buttons
https://video.nostr.build/8b38e70802c28e607504ac019ad0107e564f9c083d374757480b8bd242782342.mp4

2026-01-06 14:14:11 UTC

Bitcoin Mining Turns Waste Heat Into Food: Canaan Launches Greenhouse Power Pilot in Canada
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/canaan-3mw-heat-recovery-pilot-canadian-greenhouse

2026-01-06 08:26:33 UTC

Boomers are finally waking up to what Millennials and Gen Z have been saying all along: the cost of living is spiraling out of control.
https://video.nostr.build/ed37fc67735cef25bcb99423fe23b12bac87671a89088f8e433eb0e481a9ad27.mp4

2026-01-06 08:21:55 UTC

Eric Trump’s American Bitcoin loves to subtly dunk on every Bitcoin Treasury Company they surpass in the rankings 😅
From American Bitcoin
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2026-01-05 15:15:08 UTC

The fog of the Maduro extraction is clearing, and the "why" beyond the Trump pressers is coming into focus.
Despite the Don repeatedly saying Venezuela stole our oil, the Pentagon didn’t move on Caracas for crude.
Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, but the quality of that oil is very low.
It is a heavy, sour crude that is high in sulphur content which only a handful of refineries worldwide can process.
In fact, by some estimates it would cost $1 trillion to upgrade the Venezuelan infrastructure just to have the country surpass Canada’s exports of 3 million barrels a day.
So, while Trump uses oil as a way to make the American people feel like they will directly benefit from the excursion, the real reason they moved was because of a convergence of three existential threats:
- Chinese control of AI-critical minerals.
- Iranian drone manufacturing on Western soil.
- Russian military integration in the Caribbean.
If Washington cared about restoring democracy, why wait 13 years into Maduro’s reign?
The military brass felt a growing strategic vulnerability less than 3 hours from Miami and felt they needed to act immediately.
But while the media focuses on rare earth elements and degraded oil infrastructure, the real prize might be sitting on a hardware wallet in Caracas.
For eight years, the Maduro regime operated a shadow financial engine designed to be unfreezable.
Since 2018, they’ve been liquidating gold from the Orinoco Mining Arc and "washing" oil proceeds through USDT into Bitcoin.
The scale is staggering.
Intelligence reports by Whale Hunting now point to a "Shadow Reserve" of roughly 600,000 to 660,000 Bitcoin.
To put that in perspective: that is twice the size of the US government’s entire Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
It rivals the holdings of MSTR and BlackRock.
If these numbers are accurate, Maduro and his cronies have been sitting on a $60 billion life raft that will play as a lynchpin in how the negotiations play out.
Washington likely knew about this secret stash since its very inception.
Court documents now reveal that Alex Saab, the Venezuelan businessman who was the architect of this Bitcoin accumulation scheme, had been a DEA informant since 2016.
The capture of Maduro has now triggered a high-stakes interrogation with the recovery of seed phrases likely playing a critical part.
As news of this reported 600,000 BTC stockpile begins to spread, the market is currently pricing this as a massive "supply lock-up."
Bitcoin is up over $5,000 since the abduction of Maduro went down.
Under the Trump administration, the probability of a "fire sale" is near zero.
Trump campaigned on the promise of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
Getting Maduro to fork over the seed phrase would be an easy, budget-neutral way to triple its size overnight.
Maduro’s "unfreezable" asset could become the cornerstone of the American balance sheet with the only stack larger being Satoshi’s.
Bitcoin has always lived outside the logic of violence.
But as Maduro is finding out, that only holds true as long as you can keep the keys in your head.
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2026-01-05 14:18:11 UTC

Kilian Rausch shares how a failed Lightning DEX became @nprofile…aze8, and his candid take on Lightning and regulation.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/kilian-rausch-boltz-cross-layer-bridge

2026-01-05 07:17:25 UTC

BTC YTD
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2026-01-05 07:16:36 UTC

Oil and gold were the obvious prizes, but was Bitcoin also on the US list when Maduro was taken out?
Subscribe below to get our newsletter tomorrow morning.
Then join Rob Wallace and Coinicarus around 11am ET as we break it down live.
https://bitcoinnews.com/subscribe

2026-01-04 11:15:30 UTC

Bitcoin’s Year-to-Date grind upwards continues 👀
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2026-01-04 11:14:56 UTC

Last night, Trump was monitoring the situation live on X just like the rest of us.
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2026-01-03 23:57:45 UTC

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Donroe Doctrine.
Under the cover of night, US Delta Force entered Venezuela, raided President Nicolas Maduro’s safehouse, and extracted both the leader and his wife.
They are already in US custody, have landed in New York, and are preparing to face trial.
We’re talking about a flawless execution; the CIA had an inside man and Maduro’s movements down to a tee.
Delta Force had even been training on an exact replica of that safehouse for weeks to ensure the operation was perfect.
The Message
The US has officially signaled that it views the entirety of the Americas as its own, and it is willing to strike unilaterally to maintain that dominance.
The United States doesn’t need a declaration of war or multinational authorization when it comes to Latin America.
This is the backyard, and the rules are whatever Washington says they are.
Central and South America had already been undergoing a sharp rightward shift and realignment toward the United States over the past few years.
Now, countries like Brazil, Cuba, and Colombia are being forced to reprice political and security risk overnight.
The "Why"
Look at the timing.
Just hours before his capture, Maduro was photographed meeting with high-ranking Chinese diplomats who were caught completely off-guard by the raid.
Why did this visit particularly piss off the White House?
Since 2018, Venezuela has been selling oil directly to China, bypassing the dollar, and building payment channels outside of SWIFT.
Venezuela sits on 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves worth roughly $17 trillion.
That is the largest reserve on Earth, surpassing even Saudi Arabia.
It’s 20% of the world’s oil, and Maduro was actively using it to fund the dismantling of the petrodollar by accepting payment in yuan.
The Strategy
Losing the petrodollar is an existential threat to the United States and the functioning of its economy.
But by cutting off Venezuela’s ability to sell crude in currencies outside the dollar, the entire calculus changes.
Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has already warned that by securing Venezuela, on top of the recent move into Guyana, Washington could soon oversee more than half of the world’s oil reserves.
This gives the US the power to pin oil at $50 a barrel and effectively bankrupts adversaries like Russia that relie on high energy prices to survive.
The New Reality
This is the Monroe Doctrine on steroids.
International law be damned, the US is using kinetic force to enforce a geographic ringfence.
If the world is fragmenting into rival blocs, the Western Hemisphere is being claimed by the bald eagle.
The "DragonBear" alliance of Russia and China is being cut out of Latin American resources in real-time.
While the jury is still out on theories of a pre brokered deal, with some suggesting the US traded Venezuela for a walk away in Ukraine or Taiwan, what is undeniable is that this move places America’s vassals on a much shorter leash.
The European Enclosure
With the Nord Stream pipeline gone, Europe became dependent on US LNG. But the US couldn't be self-sufficient and fully supply the EU at the same time until now.
By seizing the world’s largest oil reserves, the US has completed the three pillar enclosure of Europe: military through NATO, trade through new EU US mandates, and now energy through Caracas.
This amounts to full control of Europe by its actual sovereign, as European leaders issue statements expressing discomfort with how international law was bypassed, while welcoming Maduro’s removal and promising only to “monitor the situation.”
The Bitcoin Angle
So, where does Bitcoin fit?
The price barely moved on the news, but Bitcoin proved a point on the 17th anniversary of its launch.
When kinetic action heats up, the "sovereign property" argument grows stronger.
If a sitting head of state can be removed from his home overnight, what is truly safe?
Gold in a vault can be seized and reserves can be frozen with a single phone call.
But Bitcoin is different.
It is uncensorable and non-sovereign.
In a world where the US is redrawing the map with Delta Force, Bitcoin remains the only asset that lives outside the logic of violence.
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2026-01-03 16:30:34 UTC

An account created on Polymarket on December 27 bet $32,537 that Maduro would be ousted within a month.
That position is now closed at a profit of over $400,000, a 1,242% gain.
What did they know?
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2026-01-03 16:29:43 UTC

On this day 17 years ago, the Bitcoin network went live.
WATCH: Inside the very first Bitcoin block, mined on January 3, 2009, broken down bit by bit.
https://video.nostr.build/615e7b399cc8b133364c89b19276d7ad066a10ee715cdfd3f8f8533907ed3098.mp4

2026-01-03 16:28:00 UTC

🇨🇳 Chinese officials appear to have been caught in the crossfire in 🇻🇪 Caracas after they arrived for high level meetings with the Venezuelan government just hours before President Trump claimed Nicolás Maduro had been captured.
On Friday, Maduro received Qiu Xiaoqi, President Xi Jinping’s special envoy for Latin American and Caribbean affairs, at the Miraflores Palace.
Maduro publicly praised the meeting on Telegram, saying the two sides reaffirmed their commitment to a deepening strategic relationship aimed at building a multipolar world.
The meeting took place amid escalating US pressure on Venezuela, following the recent seizure of oil tankers carrying Venezuelan crude, some reportedly bound for China.
The timing has raised questions about whether Chinese officials were present in the country as security conditions rapidly deteriorated.
https://video.nostr.build/13dc3509785978f7d962935a4a7cf9c421110badc25f7b0e9c2392d93f0223e8.mp4

2026-01-02 14:18:22 UTC

Beyond buying BTC, Metaplanet earned ¥8.6bn via options strategies and reported a 568% BTC Yield, while keeping trading separate from long-term reserves.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/metaplanet-bitcoin-bet-revenue-soars-35k-btc

2026-01-02 10:45:54 UTC

Be careful when creating that passphrase, anon.
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2026-01-02 10:45:22 UTC

NEW: Prenetics has decided to halt BTC purchases due to prolonged weakness in the market.
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2026-01-02 10:44:50 UTC

In the final week of 2025, Senator Dave McCormick disclosed up to $200K in new Bitcoin purchases.
McCormick sits on the Senate Subcommittee on Digital Assets.
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2026-01-01 14:18:46 UTC

In our latest piece by Conor Chepenik we step back to assess where Bitcoin stands at the start of the new year.
It is beginning to look less like speculation and more like infrastructure, repricing trust as it becomes a refuge, a settlement layer, and a tool for sovereignty.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/bitcoin-2026-sovereignty-settlement-repricing-of-trust

2026-01-01 10:31:51 UTC

2025 ending -6% is more
🟢🟢🟡
Than it is
🟢🟢🔴
Either way the 4 year cycle is over.
Here’s to a green 2026.
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2026-01-01 10:30:29 UTC

Here’s to less fraud in 2026.
Everywhere.
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2025-12-31 16:57:55 UTC

"The social contract was defaulted on by the older generations, and we're stuck paying for benefits we'll never see."
Infra joins to discuss:
🔸 $140k Poverty Line
🔸 Gen Z Financial Nihilism
🔸 Why He's Stacking Bitcoin Hard at $80K
https://blossom.primal.net/de50dbf11a008e7711afe68e32334eb4188a604065d4b389ac774fd11cb72ca3.mov
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Uwe32iuv4cc
Listen on Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/SdJhgUq7kmWVn8DhkD8m

2025-12-31 15:09:30 UTC

Sberbank Makes History With Russia’s First Bitcoin-Backed Loan
The pilot deal used Sberbank’s own digital custody system, locking the mined bitcoin as collateral and preventing the borrower from accessing it until repayment.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/sberbank-russia-first-bitcoin-backed-loan

2025-12-31 11:28:03 UTC

CHINA’S CBDC ENABLES INSTANT FINES FROM CITIZENS
After a cyclist was caught on camera without a helmet, authorities reportedly deducted a 25 yuan fine directly from his digital wallet and applied social credit penalties.
From No To Digital ID
https://video.nostr.build/4223a54a36eccd65ff451a12901855b1077cc0ddc8fed161f41453461a35e206.mp4

2025-12-31 11:26:38 UTC

Average Salary Vs. Home Price
Your salary is simply not keeping up.
However, when priced in Bitcoin, homes keep getting cheaper.
From American AF
https://video.nostr.build/811dd33d8fa996e9796b45394608af01d5f3850becaf95d721b7aca97bc7f86b.mp4