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[₿ruce ⚡️ @techexe]

The Quantum Bitcoin panic is a manufactured Wall Street psyop designed to scare you out of self-custody. Here is the mathematical reality of the 2026 quantum landscape:

1. The Hash Shield: If you never reuse a Bitcoin address, your public key is a hashed secret. A quantum computer cannot crack what it cannot see. Your unspent coins are safe at rest.

2. The Bottleneck: Even if legacy P2PK wallets are compromised, the protocol will bottleneck the exit door to a trickle. Attackers will be forced into a multi-decade mempool bidding war, bleeding the stolen fiat value directly to the miners as fees. There will be no macroeconomic supply shock.

3. The Opt-In Vault: Developers are already scaffolding the solution (BIP-360 / bc1z). When ready, this will be an opt-in, post-quantum vault. You will simply migrate your funds using your existing seed phrase so they are safe in motion.

Wall Street wants you to surrender your keys to an ETF for "safety." Do not fall for the fiat Trojan Horse.

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

ADAM BACK: “Blockstream has 20 person applied cryptography/security team working on the quantum issue basically full time, you can see that from the pace of R&D output, implementations, BIPs.

It's just insulting and FALSE to say bitcoin protocol researchers are "not doing anything.”

[Adam Back @adam3us]

"The protocol will simply upgrade to post-quantum signatures like SHRIMPS to protect the thermodynamic wall. Absolute scarcity will just adopt the new math." -@techexe 🦐🤌

[Avi Chawla @_avichawla]

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[Willy Woo @willywoo]

Musk hiring Benji is a hint that X as it extends into a finance app will include crypto.

[CJK @CJKonstantinos]

I bought my 2200sqft single family starter home in 2019 for 100 $BTC

At the time, I could've instead borrowed against 200 Bitcoin and had a "healthy" LTV of 50%

~6 months later, COVID hit...

Dollar liquidity crisis.
EVERYTHING sold off.
Bitcoin dropped from 10K to 3K.

There wasn't enough time to post margin, lucky even to just sign in.

Absolute panic, stocks were limit down halted...no one halts $BTC

I WOULD'VE BEEN LIQUIDATED ⚠️

My barely ~$500K SFH would've cost me $14,000,000 instead of 7 ☠️

SO, we knew our Bitcoin Mortgages had to solve for price volatility-based liquidation risk...

Who wants to buy a house, and not sleep at night, bc they have to worry about "macro"?

Who wants to stay up and babysit charts 24/7/365 or else risk losing their most valuable pristine asset?

With Peoples Reserve's mortgages:

No margin calls.
No liquidation risk.
No re-collateralization calls.

The mortgage is secured by BOTH property title and Bitcoin.

This means $BTC is NOT being borrowed against on margin.

Instead, its being used as a pristine collateral that reduces risk for the lender & lowers rates for borrower.

Find your dream home.
Post Bitcoin collateral.
Get financing.
Sleep well.

Thats Bitcoin Powered Finance ⚡️
Build Wealth Smarter.

[Willy Woo @willywoo]

I'm seeing crypto folk falling into the trough of dispair after an abysmal bull market with mainly losers and BTC outperforming their "beta".

Let me tell you a story that tells you why you got screwed. It starts with the end of FTX.

When the bankruptcy folk came in to liquidate FTX assets their mandate was to sell everything. This included vast quantities of locked SOL.

They inadvertently invented something new, selling an asset that was locked up on-chain through the magic of a legal sale agreement (pay me now, I deliver later).

The deal got passed around the ecosystem, fund managers bought up the locked SOL at more than 60% discount to compensate for being locked up and exposed to the token price.

Many hedge funds bought the deal. They knew they could hedge the token price on futures markets by shorting SOL pocketing 70-80% yield at near zero risk (staking + basis yield + token discount).

They liked it and asked where can we get more of this?

Herein lies your PROBLEM as a crypto investor in 2023-2025.

Every crypto project has backers (and a foundation) who has great wads locked tokens that have been sold to hedge funds and dumped on you immediately through futures markets.

All your alpha went to market neutral hedge funds pocketing risk free yield.

THAT IS WHY CRYPTO IN 2023-2025 UNDER PERFORMED

You got dumped on prematurely.

On the bright side many of these projects, even though they have "locked up tokens ready to dump" on paper, in reality they have been sold already, so they will logically perform without the expected sell pressure in the next bull market given they have effectively been sold.

Not that I recommend buying crypto, you need to be an insider to get an edge, it works like a casino, the house will take your money. The house in 2023-2025 were the people who understood this trade. Just buy BTC and get on with your life.

[Phong Le @phongle]

Bitcoin runs 24/7 and doesn’t operate on prescribed quarterly cycles.

@Strategy, built on Bitcoin, provides real-time transparency into performance, weekly updates on financial activity, and continuous visibility into strategy and operations.

Bitcoin sets a new standard for capital markets.

https://t.co/RL8iN22lDT

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[Willy Woo @willywoo]

Fundamentals continue their local strength which opens the door to mid-80s, which is the cost basis of short term holders.

Futures markets have been powering this move, these are shorter term buyers. This type of liquidity has draw backs, including whipsaw price movements to hunt liquidations.

Beware this will be a bull trap, the bottom structure has not formed yet.

From the liquidity picture I'm looking at we are around 1/3 of the way through the bear market.

[Cole Walmsley @Cole_Walmsley]

The Chinese Yuan is worth 702 million bitcoins today.

Not gonna fit. There's only 21 million bitcoins. The Yuan will go down in BTC terms.

The U.S. Dollar is worth 313 million bitcoins today.

Not gonna fit. There's only 21 million bitcoins. The Dollar will go down in BTC terms.

Do you see?

There's only 21 million bitcoins. Always and forever. Everything has to fit inside.

Everything is getting repriced inside of Bitcoin's 21 million supply.

Which means everything is trending toward zero against BTC.

Everything is going down in BTC terms, because there is constantly new productivity being created, but there is a finite, fixed supply of BTC.

In order to make room for the new productivity to be priced in BTC, the current amount of productivity *has to go down in BTC terms*.

The faster new productivity is created, the faster everything else trends down in BTC price.

Whether you’re awake to Bitcoin or not, two things remain certain:

1) Death
2) 21 million BTC

[Adam Back @adam3us]

maybe the node runners most important functions as defenders of the network, is to contain the principled nodes of last resort, the defenders on the wall of the bitcoin network's censorship resistance. they are the cypherpunks keeping the network robust.

[Jeff Booth ⚡️ @JeffBooth]

🧵 Technology is naturally deflationary, and AI is accelerating this faster than most realize. As innovation drives down costs, the future of work, value, and time is being reshaped. Let's dive into why this matters for all of us.👇

[Cole Walmsley @Cole_Walmsley]

This quote from the Rothschilds in 1863 is spot on:

"The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent upon its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class, while, on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending... will bear its burdens without complaint."

Henry Ford understood the system, which is why he said this,

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

Perhaps Abraham Lincoln knew it better than anybody, saying this in 1864,

"The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic destroyed."

They don't want you to know about the truth of central banking.

But knowing the system is one thing. Having an escape is another.

That's why Satoshi Nakamoto made the biggest difference,

"I've developed a new open source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin. It's completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties, because everything is based on crypto proof instead of trust."

[Samson Mow @Excellion]

The Great Rotation is coming.

[J. P. Mayall @jpmayall]

"Where does the $STRC yield come from?"

6 layers. 122 years of coverage. At today's Bitcoin price.

The chart they don't show you on CNBC.

[Lark Davis @LarkDavis]

𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸. 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲. 𝗝𝗣 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻. 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗹𝗲𝘆.

All blocked or capped withdrawals from their private credit funds in Q1 2026.

This is not a rumour. It's in the filings.

In 2007, the same thing happened with mortgage funds.

We know how that ended.

[Jeff Booth ⚡️ @JeffBooth]

Are you building on a foundation that tells the truth? Everything built on dishonesty eventually crumbles. Honest protocols like TCP/IP for money—neutral, honest, permissionless—create a resilient structure. What you choose to build on defines what you become.