BitcoinShitStorm

Mute Watchman of the storm. #Bitcoin

[BitcoinShitStorm @ShitBitcoin]

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[Steven Bartlett @StevenBartlett]

Would you bet EVERYTHING on one idea?

Michael Saylor did.

Michael is a technology entrepreneur and the founder of the company now called Strategy. Long before Bitcoin, he built businesses in business intelligence, speech recognition and smart-home technology. Today, he is probably best known for turning his company into the world’s largest corporate holder of Bitcoin.

In 2020, his company was worth around $600 million when he made what I described to him as an “early, very contrarian bet on Bitcoin”. At its peak, the company reached roughly $125 billion.

I wanted to understand what Michael saw that almost everyone else didn’t, where that level of conviction comes from, and why his thinking goes far beyond Bitcoin.

We discussed things like:

- How he says AI helped him create $15 billion last year.
- Why he believes buying a house might not be the best way to build wealth.
- What he would study if he was 18 today.
- Which careers AI could completely transform.
- What is happening to the value of the money sitting in your bank.
- Why he still has such enormous conviction in Bitcoin.

Michael’s whole point is that technology, money and careers are not separate conversations.

He sees them as connected parts of where the world is heading, and believes the decisions we make now could matter far more than most people realise.

Even if you see the world differently to Michael, there is a lot to take from the way he thinks. His experience building technology companies, making enormous financial bets and thinking deeply about AI gives him a perspective on money, work and the future that is worth listening to.

Out now on all platforms. Let me know what you think of this one in the comments ❤️👊🏾

[Virtus Verbis Podcast @VirtusVerbis]

Open Source:
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[Virtus Verbis Podcast @VirtusVerbis]

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Watch Satoshi battle the Lizard with each movement tied back to Bitcoin price action!

[BitcoinTreasuries.NET @BTCtreasuries]

LIVE: $MSTR Q4 Earnings Call Breakdown 🔥

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[Tim Pool @Timcast]

“This is a nuclear bomb in politics.”

Instead of engaging in honest criticism of Donald Trump, Democrats chose to collude with Jeffrey Epstein and spread lies about him.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: $1 trillion wiped out from the US stock market cap.

$120,000,000,000 wiped out from the crypto market cap today.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The S&P 500 has now erased -$1.5 trillion in market cap between 10:40 AM ET and 12:20 PM ET.

That's -$15 billion PER MINUTE for 100 minutes straight.

The craziest part?

There hasn't been a single material headline yet.

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

JUST IN: $200 BILLION OIL & GAS GIANT SHELL IS NOW ACCEPTING #BITCOIN IN SOUTH AFRICA

EVERYDAY PAYMENTS WITH BTC. THEY'RE HERE 🔥

[Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡ @gladstein]

New essay up at @reason about how stablecoins have evolved from obscure tool to key pillar of US economic power

Bitcoin separates money from state, but stablecoins do the opposite, expanding the fiat system

[Pledditor @Pledditor]

Names that stood out to me:

Jameson Lopp: 1,340,000 shares of $NAKA
Balaji Srinivasan: 273,038 shares of $NAKA
David Bailey: 11,160,572 shares of $NAKA
Clark Moody: 100,000 shares of $NAKA
Adam Back: 8,928,572 shares of $NAKA
Danny Yang: 450,000 shares of $NAKA
Jeff Park: 89,286 shares of $NAKA
Mark W. Yusko: 2,100,000 shares of $NAKA
Tyler Evans: 2,410,685 shares of $NAKA
The Okung Community Property Trust: 357,142 shares of $NAKA

[Tatum Turn Up @tatumturnup]

It is Quest of Keys week! We will be recording this Saturday and will hopefully have it ready to watch soon after.

Any predictions for what might happen in the campaign?

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

JUST IN: SOMEONE JUST SUCCESSFULLY SENT A #BITCOIN LIGHTNING PAYMENT OVER SATELLITE IN OUTER SPACE

BTC AS INTERSTELLAR MONEY. IT'S HERE 🧡

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

JUST IN: OHIO CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLS LAUNCH $3.2 MILLION #BITCOIN SCHOLARSHIP FUND

TUITION PAID IN BTC. LOVE TO SEE IT 🧡

[The ₿itcoin Therapist @TheBTCTherapist]

Charlie was a Bitcoiner 🧡

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

JUST IN: $15 BILLION PAYMENTS GIANT KLARNA JUST OFFICIALLY WENT PUBLIC ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

IT PLANS TO ACCEPT #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO SOON. GOING MAINSTREAM 🔥

[Lina Seiche @LinaSeiche]

If you wonder how the EU could agree to such a humiliating deal:

It’s because the EU has no political leverage.

It has outsourced its energy needs, neglected its defense, sabotaged its industry, regulated away any innovation, and generally failed to become an indispensable geopolitical player.

In short, the EU needs the U.S. more than vice versa.

Unfortunately, being the world champion in moralizing doesn’t buy you a seat at the table, and so the EU has become, for all intents and purposes, politically irrelevant.

[Vijay Boyapati @real_vijay]

If an asset has gone up 10,000x and "only" has 100x to go, you have not "missed out" because the asset has only captured 1% of its total addressable market.

The real growth for Bitcoin is still ahead.

[Adam Livingston @AdamBLiv]

Bitcoin in the S&P 500:

Block - 8,584 BTC
Coinbase - 9,267 BTC
Tesla - 11, 509 BTC

Dollar value of their combined BTC: ~$3.48 billion

Bitcoin's share of the entire wealth in the S&P: $3.48b / $53.59T = .00649%.

Strategy's inclusion would bring the Bitcoin share of S&P wealth to $75.4b.

$75.4b / $53.8T ≈ .14% of S&P 500's market cap in Bitcoin.

You're early.

[Mark Soares @marksoares]

Took a bit of effort but Bitle v.01 is operational; Bitle is a self powered, standalone ESP32-based mesh relay node for @jack's bitchat, a decentralized messaging protocol; it can operate indefinitely on solar, or ~25-50 days on the battery; the case is weatherproof and meant to be installed in adverse conditions. It should extend the range of bluetooth outdoors anywhere from 300-500ft.

Bitle implements the bitchat binary protocol over Bluetooth LE, establishing GATT server connections with bitchat devices and acts as an intermediate node to extend the mesh network range. Bitle handles noise protocol handshakes for secure communication, processes encrypted user messages, and forwards them through the mesh network.

It's designed as a professional mesh relay that enhances bitchat's decentralized architecture by providing additional routing nodes without requiring user interaction or appearing as a peer in the messaging interface.

I envisioned its utility as a ground node for remote areas, like hiking trails, camping grounds etc (hence the name Bitle - "Biddle" or "beetle") where signal may be weak and communication critical. Most importantly, although signal/wifi may be abundant, bitchat isn't really about being a failsafe to online comms - it's about choosing to communicate without centralized infrastructure; peer to peer - a device like Bitle seems instrumental to this. It should be possible to make a grid of these quite cheaply and establish an ambient mesh network that anyone can communicate through while being offline. The bulk of the size of the device is in the battery/solar/case/power board - it would be significantly smaller if it was built into a lightbulb or any plug-in device.

[David Bailey🇵🇷 $2.0mm/btc is the floor @DavidFBailey]

🫡 Thank you President Trump, you will go down in history as the first Bitcoin and Crypto world leader. It’s been an honor to be a (tiny) part of it.

Promises Made, Promises Kept.