This Week in Bitcoin

80: Shutdown Shock

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The U.S. shutdown has sidelined a trillion dollars, starving markets and Bitcoin alike. Whales are having their IPO moment, treasury stacks are shrinking, and now BIP-444 drops a fresh dose of chaos into the mix.

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    • Show Notes

    • Tomas on X: "OK, lots of bad takes on X over the past few days.
    • How Bitcoin Liquidity Has Been Affected by the Government Shutdown - Decrypt
    • Bitcoin’s Silent IPO: Why This Consolidation Isn’t What You Think
    • The Truth About Why Bitcoin Isn’t Exploding (Yet) - YouTube
    • Ted on X: "This isn’t a good sign. 🚨 That’s the second Treasury company I’ve seen selling
    • Cory 🦢 Bitcoin @ Swan.com on X: Was too leveraged, at nearly 50%. In the initial raise, there was supposed to be significantly more in the PIPE, but at close it was $195M of equity, $189M of debt. Much more flexibility at lower leverage, eg for buybacks."
    • Could the AI bubble pop? - YouTube
    • BIP-444 Explained: The Bitcoin Soft Fork Proposal Dividing Developers and the Community
    • Reduced Data Temporary Softfork by dathonohm · Pull Request #2017 · bitcoin/bips
    • The BIP 444 proposal is incredibly bad
    • Luke Dashjr on X: if someone mines CSAM, BIP 444 will activate to reject that block. The only way technically to then reject BIP 444 is to add a checkpoint pinning the CSAM in the chain"
    • My Video on BIP-444: Ok, WTF Is going on with BIP-444? I

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