Date: March 8, 2026

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Bitcoin vs Entitlement Economics

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NEWS (March 1, 2026 – March 8, 2026)

PODCAST UNIVERSE

Date: March 1, 2026

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Bitcoin vs Political Cycles

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NEWS (February 22– March 1, 2026)

Tariff Uncertainty Impacts Bitcoin

Fed Officials See No Urgent Policy Change

Fed’s Waller on Jobs Data & Policy Pause

OCBC Explores Physical Gold Custody Amid Demand Surge

Spot Bitcoin ETFs Record Five Straight Weeks of Outflows

Spot Bitcoin ETFs See $257M Inflows

Bitcoin ETFs Post $506M Inflows

ETF Outflows & Key Support Levels to Watch

Strategy Continues Bitcoin Purchases Amid Price Drop

DDC Surpasses 2,000 BTC Treasury Holdings

Morgan Stanley Plans Bitcoin Custody, Trading & Lending

Banks Expand Regulated Crypto Infrastructure

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Jumps 15%

MARA Earnings & AI/Data Center Pivot

American Bitcoin Swings to Quarterly Loss

Lightning Network Processes 5,000 Payments in 8 Hours

Lightning Labs Rolls Out AI Agent Tools

El Salvador Overhauls Bitcoin Education Program

CFTC Leadership & Prediction Market Oversight

Stephan Livera Podcast — SLP724 (Spam Debates)

Stephan Livera Podcast — SLP725 ($1B Lightning Volume)

Stephan Livera Podcast — SLP726 (Stablecoins & Adoption)

TFTC #721 — AI & Human Skills

Bitcoin Audible — Read_933

The Bitcoin Standard Podcast — Episode 312

Date: February 22, 2026

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• The Bitcoin Retirement Plan

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NEWS (February 15–22, 2026)

https://www.kucoin.com/news/flash/bitcoin-etf-sees-88-1m-net-inflow-on-feb-20

February 15, 2026

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News (2/8/26-2/15/26):

• Bitcoin ETFs shed ~$410M amid price slump

• Bitcoin falling toward $60,000 could spark liquidation spiral (Bloomberg)

• Bitcoin rebounds from $62K dip, consolidates near $70K after long liquidations

• What triggered Bitcoin’s February selloff? (VanEck)

• U.S. equity funds see outflows amid rate uncertainty (macro context)

• Bitcoin-backed bond sale hit by crypto turbulence (WSJ)

• White House crypto meetings + GENIUS Act implementation tracker

• Crypto industry counters Wall Street bankers with stablecoin principles

• GENIUS Act – Full bill text (Congress.gov)

• Congress needs to pass crypto legislation (Bitcoin Magazine)

• Sparrow Wallet Releases (2.4.0 and updates)

• SigBash project

• Amboss Lightning tools

• What Bitcoin Did – Joe Consorti

• What Bitcoin Did – Checkmate

• What Bitcoin Did – Mark Goodwin

• Stephan Livera Podcast – SLP718

• Stephan Livera Podcast – SLP719

• Stephan Livera Podcast – SLP721

• TFTC – What Comes After Taproot

• Rabbit Hole Recap

Date: February 8, 2026

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News (2/1/26-2/8/26):

MARKETS / PRICE ACTION

ETF FLOWS

MINING / NETWORK

EXCHANGE / COUNTERPARTY RISK

US POLICY / REGULATION

TAX

EUROPE / MiCA

US STRATEGIC BITCOIN RESERVE

Date: February 1, 2026

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News (1/25/26-2/1/26):

Bitcoin / Macro

CoinDesk — Bitcoin plunges under $80,000 as U.S.-Iran attacks deepen

Reuters — Bitcoin falls below $80,000, continuing decline as liquidity worries mount

Reuters — Bitcoin slips as Fed chair speculation hits risky assets

Bloomberg — Bitcoin plunges below $80,000 as the crypto slide deepens

ETFs / Flows

CoinDesk — U.S.-listed bitcoin, ether ETFs bleed nearly $1 billion in one day

crypto.news — Bitcoin ETFs extend four-day outflow streak while BTC stalls near $83,000

Policy / Banking

Yahoo Finance — Wall Street banks & crypto leaders meet in Washington with Clarity Act hanging in the balance

Lexology — Senate Agriculture Committee / market structure draft summary

OCC Bulletin 2026-1 — Trust bank chartering proposal

Financial Times — Laser Digital seeks U.S. banking license

Mining

CoinDesk — Bitcoin hashrate drops 12% in worst drawdown since China mining ban

Hashrate Index — Roundup (Jan 26, 2026)

Corporate

Yahoo Finance — Strategy buys 2,932 bitcoin for $264 million

Lightning / Tech

Protos — It took a decade to fix this Bitcoin Lightning bug

PRNewswire — Amboss unveils RailsX (Lightning-native P2P exchange layer)

Gold & Silver Friday Carnage

Barron’s — Gold and Silver Prices Fall Sharply (Warsh/Fed-chair catalyst)

MarketWatch — Silver suffers biggest drop in decades / panic unwind framing

Date: January 25, 2026

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News (1/18/26-1/25/26):

CoinDesk — BTC slips below $88K ahead of Fed week

The Block — spot BTC ETFs worst outflow week since Feb 2025

Reuters — Strategy buys ~$2.13B BTC in eight days

Financial Times — Galaxy to launch ~$100M crypto hedge fund

Reuters — Scaramucci: volatility up, cautiously optimistic on BTC

CoinDesk — major U.S. crypto bill “on the move”

Lowenstein — Senate draft changes, CFTC authority over digital commodities

CoinDesk — hashrate drop / miner capitulation narrative

VanEck — mid-January “ChainCheck,” miners pivot toward AI demand

Hashrate Index — roundup + hashrate moving averages

Protos — Lightning two-party channel liquidity challenges (Pickhardt research)

The Guardian — report on Iran central bank using USDT at scale

Blockworks — Tether pushes back audit timeline

Date: January 18, 2026

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News (1/11/26-1/18/26):

POLICY / REGULATION

MARKETS / ETFS

CORPORATE TREASURY

STATE / PUBLIC FINANCE

MINING / NETWORK

SECURITY / SCAMS

NARRATIVE / QUANTUM

PODCAST THEME ANCHORS

Date: January 11, 2026

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NEWS (1/4–1/11)

PODCAST THEMES (examples referenced)

Date: January 4, 2026

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NEWS LINKS (15)

2) Reuters — Global markets Jan 2, 2026 (includes BTC move)

3) Yahoo Finance — US crypto ETFs draw ~$670M inflows; BTC ETFs lead (Jan 2, 2026)

4) CoinDesk — Tether adds nearly $800M in BTC; holdings above 96k BTC (Jan 2, 2026)

5) Barron’s — Strategy buys ~$109M BTC (Dec 28, 2025 window)

6) MarketWatch — Prenetics halts further BTC purchases (late Dec 2025)

7) DL News — Bitcoin ETFs in 2026 outlook (late Dec 2025)

8) Bitcoin Core v30.1 release thread (Jan 2, 2026)

9) Bitcoin Core downloads (v30.1)

10) Lightning Engineering — Taproot Assets v0.7 (Dec 16, 2025)

11) Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #386 (Jan 2, 2026)

12) Yahoo Finance — Mining difficulty nears record high heading into 2026 (late Dec 2025)

13) CoinWarz — Bitcoin difficulty chart / next adjustment estimate

14) The Block — 2026 Bitcoin mining outlook (late Dec 2025)

15) The Verge — Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein early release (Jan 3, 2026)