This Week in Bitcoin

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The legacy system is breaking down as Bitcoin infrastructure builds up. From bond-market stress to Liquid’s 4,000 BTC crisis, the weakest links are showing. Episode Links 🎉 Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform 💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes Liquid Network Exploit Drains 4,000 BTC From Federation Reserves Liquid Network Hit by $320 Million Exploit Liquid Rangeproof Bug: Nobody Broke the Math Liquid Network Incident Technical Report Elements Fixes Rangeproof Cache Validation Bug Liquid Incident Working Theory Block Applies to Establish Builders Bank Block Seeks Bank Charter to Custody Bitcoin Bitcoin’s Overlooked Promise: Freedom Dan Morehead Says Bitcoin Will Massively Outperform Gold Failed Bond-Market Move Lights a Fire Under Bitcoin Dan Morehead Calls Bessent’s Bond Buyback a Mistake The 60/40 Portfolio and a Changing Monetary System Bond-Market Stress Spooks Investors Global Investors Sound the Alarm on Debt What Would a Fiscal Crisis Look Like? Warsh and Bessent Clash Over the Fed and Bond Market

A structural shift is taking hold across markets, institutions, and Bitcoin. And this week, it suddenly felt a lot more permanent. Episode Links 🎉 Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform 💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes OCEAN and Luke Dashjr Joint Statement Crypto Misses the Macro Trade Bitcoin, Gold and Fed Liquidity The AI Mid-Cycle Slowdown Bitcoin to Hit $82,000 in September: Kalshi Capital B Raises €7.6M From Adam Back To Another Bitcoin Buy 9/11 Families File Claim Over US Bitcoin Holdings Trump's Crypto Push and Bessent's Treasury Moves Bessent Bets on Stablecoins for Treasury Demand PACTs: Protecting Bitcoin From a Quantum Sunset All Property Becomes Cryptography From Fiat Information to Cryptoinformation De-Dollarization Is Really De-Fiatization The Global Shift From Dollars to Gold The Case for Bitcoin at $1.3 Million Bitcoin's First Quantum-Safe Transaction What Bitcoin's First Quantum-Safe Transaction Means A Treasury Showdown With the Bond Market

As the AI trade cools and Washington leans harder on the bond market, Bitcoin and hard assets are reminding investors that credibility is the one thing you can’t print. Episode Links 🎉 Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform 💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes Bessent’s Treasury Buybacks Could Exceed $4 Billion Druckenmiller Slams Bessent’s Bond Buybacks Druckenmiller Calls Treasury Bond Buying a Mistake Citi Economist Says Bessent’s Bond Plan Won’t Work Citi: US Fiscal Position Is Absolutely Out of Control Dollar Debasement Talk Returns Bessent’s Buyback Revives the Debasement Thesis Bessent’s Bond Rescue Worked Better for Bitcoin Bessent Kicks Bitcoin’s Debasement Trade Into Another Gear Bitcoin Posts Best Week in Three Years Bitcoin and Gold: It’s Difficult to Be Bearish Should Investors Be Bullish on Bitcoin’s Latest Surge? Coinbase Institutional Weekly Market Commentary BlackRock IBIT SEC Filing Bitcoin Halving and Supply Lightning Labs Taproot Assets v0.8 Bitcoin, ETFs and the Crypto Short Squeeze Major Rotation Hits the Bull Market The Biggest Tech Trend We’ve Ever Seen Scott Bessent Plants the Seeds for a Crack-Up US Treasury Fiscal Data Treasury Disrupts Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Financial Network Treasury Broadens Sanctions Against Iran Bessent Expands Iran Sanctions Against Chinese Firms Treasury Launches Operation Economic Outcast Bessent Warns Countries to Cut Financial Ties With Iran Treasury’s New Approach to Iranian Sanctions Evasion The Double-Edged Sword of Dollar Sanctions Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

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