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  • Binance Got Hacked for $6.3 Billion: SAFU or SBF?

    Binance lost an estimated $6.3 billion after an attacker got in through one engineer's laptop, the same playbook that hit Bitget a month earlier. Plus the NYSE's owner wants Hyperliquid perps in the US, Keystone is destroying 18,000 wallets, and Bitwise raises its 2036 target to $1.6M.



    In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
    • Binance says a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop let an attacker submit unauthorized withdrawals. Estimated impact: $6.3B, no sign of a private key leak, deposits and withdrawals frozen. Binance says its SAFU fund will cover every loss.
    • Tether froze $1.5B in USDT and Circle froze $800M in USDC, but 18,270 BTC looks to be on its way to North Korea.
    • Brandon watched FTX collapse from his seat running social at BlockFi, and he thinks it's far too early to be thanking CZ. Kate's read: people trust Binance to cover it, and they're numb from a year of hacks.
    • The NYSE's owner, ICE, wants to bring Hyperliquid perpetual futures to regulated US markets through Trade XYZ, pending CFTC approval. Kate's favorite reply: "Finally, a fully regulated way to lose your savings in an afternoon."
    • Keystone is destroying more than 18,000 devices after an attacker stole the factory key that proves a device is genuine. Foundation's old customer records leaked into phishing emails.
    • DataVault AI shares fell 50% after it disclosed it hasn't been able to withdraw its Bitcoin from the Biconomy exchange since June. Kate: if you can't withdraw it, you don't own it.
    • UAE real estate firm Standard Asset Company announced a $1.5B plan pairing property with a Bitcoin reserve run by Coinbase Asset Management.
    • Strategy skipped buying on earnings week, bought back $205M of STRC, and posted a record $20.91B Q3 operating income. Daily dividends start November 1 for STRC, and CFO Andrew Kang steps down November 5.
    • Fidelity Digital Assets says Bitcoin holders' unrealized profit metric jumped from 0.09 to 0.36, a level that has historically coincided with a median one-year return of 93%.
    • Bitwise raised its 2036 base case from $1.3M to $1.6M per Bitcoin, with a $130K bear case and a $3.6M bull case.
    • Kate found Dishing Up Bitcoin, DDC Enterprise's Bitcoin cooking show (Jeff Booth was a guest).
    • Treasury tracker: Strive +6,182 BTC (about 43,000, its biggest buy since January), Coinbase +643 (17,954) and Empery Digital sold 161 (1,018).
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          • 33 min
        • The McRib Indicator Is Back: PHP Flaws, a Railway Breach, and JPMorgan Picks Bitcoin

          Two critical PHP flaws put an estimated 70% of websites at risk, Next.js and Railway got hit the same week, and Brandon flies solo to sort out what it means for your Bitcoin. Plus JPMorgan forecasts Bitcoin beating stocks and gold, Strive launches SATS, and the McRib is back.


          In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon discusses:
          • Kate is moving across the country, so it's a solo show. She should be back next week.
          • Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the server-side language behind roughly 70% of websites, could let attackers run code remotely, one of the most serious kinds of bug.
          • Next.js, the fourth-largest web framework, had its own major vulnerability, and Railway was breached, exposing customer environment variables, including AI API keys.
          • Brandon's take: painful now, but the internet comes out stronger. Jameson Lopp's open letter: when security controls fail, learn from the failure and architect a more robust system. And plan for what happens to your Bitcoin if something happens to you.
          • AnchorWatch launched a trust company for whales: fixed-dollar custody fees capped at $10,000 a month, a multi-institution option splitting keys across AnchorWatch, BitGo, and CoinCorner, and up to $370M in insurance per client, including kidnapping and coercion.
          • Heatbit unveiled Bitwater, a heating element that mines Bitcoin inside the electric water heater you already have. Brandon's gas heaters don't qualify yet.
          • JPMorgan Asset Management added Bitcoin to its Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions for the first time: a 10% compounded 10-year base case with 55% volatility, ahead of US large caps (7.5%) and gold (5.5%).
          • SoFi announced SoFi Earn, a tokenized deposit paying 4.4% APY with FDIC insurance, something no stablecoin can offer under the GENIUS Act.
          • Strive launched SATS, a preferred paying 15% annualized dividends every business day. SATA targets price stability; SATS targets income stability. It debuted at $90.
          • Bitkey added auto-withdraw from Cash App once your BTC balance hits a threshold: DCA straight into cold storage.
          • The McRib returns 10/27, and McDonald's marketing director nodded to the Bitcoin meme in his announcement.
          • Treasury tracker: Strategy +267 (848,517 BTC) plus $193M of STRC repurchases, with its buyback program raised from $2B to $3B. Strive +1,223 (36,818). Alpha Modus Holdings enters at 3,170 BTC, the 27th-largest public holder.
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                • 22 min
              • Ledger Launched a Phone: Soldiers Charged in Crypto Kidnapping, Choke Point 2.0 Confirmed

                Days after spy-chipped devices from one of its resellers drained Ledger users, Ledger unveiled a phone. Plus three Canadian soldiers are charged in the kidnapping of a crypto exchange owner, the OCC confirms Operation Choke Point 2.0 was real, and Binance shuts down its mining pool.


                In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
                • The Ledger theft traces back to CryptoBilis, a third-party reseller in Southeast Asia. Thieves allegedly paid it to plant SIM-card implants that sent out recovery phrases. Brandon: you shouldn't have to crack open your hardware wallet to check every chip.
                • Then Ledger unveiled Atom, a phone-shaped device running Android next to Ledger's secure OS, built with Solana Mobile so AI agents can request transactions you approve. Brandon says read the room. Kate: the comments just want the devices to be safe.
                • Trezor is scaling back its third-party reseller program and cutting a large share of its resellers starting in 2027.
                • Binance is shutting down its mining pool on November 10 after six years and 22,188 blocks, the third major pool to go this year after SBI Crypto and Poolin. Brandon: every four years your profits get cut in half.
                • Block is teasing a Square credit card that earns 3% back in Bitcoin, listed as in progress on its public roadmap.
                • Seven men, three of them Canadian Armed Forces members, face 82 charges for kidnapping a Toronto crypto exchange owner at gunpoint in July. Brandon's defense: time locks and multisig from services like Casa and Unchained.
                • The OCC's debanking report found all nine of the largest banks it supervises had debanking policies from 2020 to 2025, confirming Operation Choke Point 2.0. Crypto, coal, firearms, and tobacco were all targeted.
                • Treasury hit Bank of America with a $1.2B fine for money laundering and sanctions violations, its third-largest penalty ever behind Binance ($4B) and TD Bank ($3B). Brandon: it's not isolated to crypto.
                • Binance.US is looking to raise up to $100M at a roughly $1B valuation, per Bloomberg.
                • OKX is teasing a Mastercard-powered stablecoin card for the US with 2% cash back, up to 10% for VIP members.
                • Treasury tracker: Strategy +250 (848,250 BTC), Strive +2,822 (35,595, now the fourth-largest treasury company), CleanSpark sold 173 (13,530), Smarter Web Company +83 (2,830), BitFuFu +15 (1,388), and Super League made its first buy, 1 BTC.
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                      • 25 min
                    • Strike Launched Stacks: Treasury Kills the Unhosted Wallet Rule, Robinhood Buys Bitcoin

                      Strike named its new savings buckets "Stacks," and when Brandon pointed out Stacks already exists, a Strike team member called it an affinity scam. Plus Treasury withdraws the unhosted wallet and mixer rules, the CFTC builds a federal crypto license without Congress, and Robinhood buys Bitcoin.



                      In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
                      • Strike launched Stacks, named buckets for your Bitcoin and cash savings. Brandon replied that Stacks already exists, and Strike's Matt Carvalho, formerly of Swan, answered that STX is too irrelevant to be a brand conflict. Kate: it's not a good look.
                      • Strike also now pays 3.6% interest on cash, paid out in Bitcoin, FDIC insured, with no minimums or maximums.
                      • Treasury formally withdrew FinCEN's 2020 unhosted wallet proposal and its 2023 rule labeling international crypto mixing a primary money laundering concern. Brandon calls it a win for self-custody and privacy, and shouts out Coin Center for fighting both.
                      • CFTC Chairman Michael Selig announced the agency's first crypto market rules, Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM, aiming for one federal exchange license instead of state-by-state licenses. Brandon's read: clarity without the Clarity Act.
                      • The US government moved a little over 12,000 BTC, about $1B, with some landing at Coinbase Prime. Kate thinks it's a custody shuffle tied to the Bitfinex hack, and Brandon tells the story of the time he met Razzlekhan at a Bitcoin conference.
                      • Buyers of tampered Ledger devices from a third-party reseller lost around $86M by Kate's count. Ledger says it wasn't them. Brandon's advice: buy direct from the manufacturer, or use multisig.
                      • OKX filed to trade tokenized shares of 63 US companies around the clock, from Nvidia and Tesla to McDonald's, and raised money at a $25B valuation from Circle, Ripple, SC Ventures, and Qube Research & Technologies.
                      • Vibewatch update: the Vibe Index wrapped with over 300 payments made by AI agents over x402, and a new repliability score (is this worth jumping into?) is in closed beta.
                      • Xverse closed a round from Draper Associates and Trust Machines.
                      • Treasury tracker: Strategy +334 to an even 848,000 BTC, Metaplanet ends an 11-week pause with +1,000 (44,000), Strive +2,000 (29,462), Silvia Inc. sold 165 (4,965), Remixpoint +7.45 (1,509), and Robinhood joins the treasury club with about 294 BTC.
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                            • 31 min
                          • Bitget Lost $387M to a Zero-Day: Muneeb Runs Stacks Labs, Anchorage Adds Bitcoin Staking

                            Hackers used zero-day flaws in Bitget's third-party security tools to make $387M in withdrawals look like internal transfers, and a $464M protection fund made every user whole. Plus Muneeb takes over Stacks Labs, Anchorage clients can stake Bitcoin, and we ask whether a fruit fly brain can mine Bitcoin.

                            In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:

                            • Bitget lost $387M from its hot and warm wallets. Attackers used zero-day flaws in third-party security tools to write withdrawals into the backend that looked internally generated. Cold wallets were untouched, and a $464M protection fund covers every user. Kate notes on-chain patterns match North Korea-linked attackers.
                            • NEAR Intents lost about $3.8M in USDT through a bug on BNB Chain, patched it within an hour, called out the attacker, and got the funds back.
                            • Adam Back replied to last week's clip: 25,000 BTC versus 0.6 BTC. Brandon's answer: it was a joke, and Adam is welcome on the show anytime.
                            • Anchorage Digital clients can now fund a Bitcoin bond on Stacks from their Anchorage account and earn BTC rewards self-custodially.
                            • Muneeb becomes CEO of Stacks Labs in mid-October, focused on Bitcoin capital markets, privacy, and post-quantum. Kate says STX nearly doubled on the news.
                            • A shielded Bitcoin white paper promises private L1 transfers with no soft fork, operators, or bridges. The peg-in and peg-out design is saved for part two, so Brandon is reserving judgment.
                            • Coinbase launched fixed-rate USDC loans backed by Bitcoin. Your BTC can still be liquidated on LTV or a missed due date.
                            • Can a fruit fly brain mine Bitcoin? A mining hardware maker claims real neurons could hash 10 times more efficiently than today's ASICs.
                            • Blink Wallet custodial accounts were drained and customers made whole, and a French family was held in a crypto extortion attempt. Brandon's wrench-attack advice: time delays and multisig.
                            • Quick headlines: SoFi settles its $25B card program in stablecoins on Mastercard's network, the SEC proposes looser adviser custody rules, and Treasury's first GENIUS Act rule sends stablecoins over $10B to federal oversight.
                            • Treasury tracker: Strategy holds 847,666 BTC, back above its pre-summer-sales stack, and repurchased $152M of STRC. Strive +1,107 (27,462), Capital B +13 (3,538), and Metaplanet sat out an 11th straight week.
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                                  • 39 min
                                • The Clarity Act Just Died: SEC Greenlights Tokenized Stocks, Bitcoin Reserve Bill Advances

                                  The Clarity Act failed its cloture vote 49 to 50, and Polymarket now gives it 8% this year. Brandon argues two-thirds of the crypto market already has its clarity; Kate warns agency rules can be undone by the next administration. Plus tokenized stocks get an SEC exemption and Revolut gets breached.

                                  In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:

                                  • The Clarity Act failed to advance: it needed 60 votes and got 49 yes, 50 no. Polymarket's odds for this year fell from 75% in May to 8%. Brandon's take: Bitcoin is already a commodity to the SEC, CFTC, and IRS, and with GENIUS Act stablecoins that's roughly two-thirds of the crypto market with the clarity it needs. Kate's worry: rules made by agencies instead of Congress can be reversed by the next administration.
                                  • The Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act did advance: a de minimis exemption for small transactions, wash sale rules that close the sell-at-a-loss-and-rebuy loophole, and clearer tax treatment for mining and staking.
                                  • The House Financial Services Committee voted 28 to 21 to advance H.R. 8957, codifying the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve with a 20-year no-sale lockup and quarterly proof-of-reserve audits. It commits the U.S. to holding, not buying.
                                  • The SEC's innovation exemption greenlights tokenized stocks: on-chain trading with no registration for five years, for real shares with dividends and voting rights, not synthetics. Issuers get 30 days to object.
                                  • Circle launched Arc, its own chain with USDC as native gas, sub-second finality, and EVM compatibility.
                                  • Revolut disclosed a KYC breach after attackers spent six months inside Italian law enforcement systems, using them to request data from Revolut.
                                  • Quick headlines: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says classified Bitcoin efforts are underway inside the Pentagon, and Franklin Templeton says it's no longer TradFi or DeFi, just Fi.
                                  • Treasury tracker: Strive +469 BTC (25,000), Capital B +4 (3,525), ProCap -51 (5,254) and renaming to Silvia. Strategy repurchased $139M of STRC. Satsuma sold all 669 BTC to return $41.4M to shareholders, and Adam Back's Bitcoin Standard Treasury Co. terminated its SPAC with a $15M fee.
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                                  26 min
                                • Hackers Minted 4,000 BTC on Liquid: Blockstream Won't Pay, Trezor Leak Grows, Genesis Bond Sold Out

                                  A dormant bug in Liquid's confidential transactions let an attacker mint roughly 4,000 BTC nobody could see, then bridge it out. They returned 3,400, kept 600, and are negotiating with Blockstream in OP_RETURN messages. Plus Trezor's leak grows to 80,000 customers, the Stacks Genesis Bond sells out in 24 hours, and Brian Armstrong calls $400K Bitcoin by 2030 reasonable.

                                  In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:

                                  • Liquid was exploited for roughly 4,000 BTC: a dormant bug in Elements' confidential transactions got a fix that introduced a new one, and the attacker minted BTC nobody could see, then bridged it out like a normal withdrawal. They returned 3,400 BTC, kept 600, and negotiated with Blockstream through OP_RETURN messages demanding a 10% bounty. Blockstream says no ransom, calls it theft, and shipped a patched Elements Wednesday.
                                  • Trezor's data leak got worse: shipping vendor ShipMonk kept customer records past its 90-day deletion policy, and another 67,000 U.S. customers who ordered between November 2019 and August 2021 had names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses exposed. About 80,000 are now affected. Kate's tip: set a family safe word before the AI voice-clone calls start.
                                  • The Stacks Genesis Bond sold out in 24 hours: 230 BTC time-locked on Bitcoin's L1, no bridge and no custodian handoff, paired with STX to target a 3% yield over a six-month bond. UTXO Management, HashKey Cloud, Cypher Capital, and 21Shares anchored the first round; the next opens around October 10. Also: Bullish listed STX and sBTC.
                                  • Clarity Act crunch: Senator Cynthia Lummis says if the Senate doesn't pass it next week there's no realistic shot before the end of the decade. The bill grew from 616 to 630 pages with over 100 Democrat-requested changes, including CFTC registration for DeFi that's decentralized in name only. Polymarket puts enactment in 2026 at 18%.
                                  • Quick headlines: SoFi and Kraken's parent Payward partner on 24/7 USD settlement, River argues Bitcoin could hit $840,000 within five years, Block applies for an OCC trust bank charter, Hunter Biden's LAPTOP token crashes 99% in hours, Luke Dashjr leaves Ocean, and Brian Armstrong tells CNBC the bottom is in.
                                  • Treasury tracker: Strategy +4,603 BTC (845,050), its first buy since June, plus $167M of STRC repurchased and the buyback doubled to $2B. Strive +1,375 (24,531), Boyaa Interactive +115 (4,316), Capital B +376 (3,521), CleanSpark -228 (13,703).
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                                  35 min
                                • Take Your Lightning Node Offline: AI-Found Bugs, Quantum-Proof BTC Mined, Coinbase Mortgages Live

                                  Critical vulnerabilities in Core Lightning have node operators going offline while a two-week embargo holds, and they were surfaced by AI-generated bug reports that proved real. Plus the first quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction mined on mainnet, Coinbase's Bitcoin-backed mortgage goes nationwide, Pakistan's full crypto licensing framework, and Strategy adds $1.59B to its reserve.

                                  In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:

                                  • Critical vulnerabilities in Core Lightning: maintainers told every node operator to upgrade or restart with the --offline flag while fixes ship. Details are under a two-week embargo, and the bugs surfaced through AI-generated vulnerability reports that proved real. If you run a Lightning node, act now.
                                  • The first quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction was mined on mainnet: StarkWare submitted it through Marathon's Slipstream service and shared the news live at Bitcoin Asia. It builds on Avihu Levy's April white paper — non-standard transactions that work today at roughly $150 each.
                                  • Coinbase's Bitcoin-backed mortgage is live nationwide: pledge 250% of the down payment in BTC, get a conforming Fannie Mae first mortgage plus a second loan against the coins. No margin calls just because the price drops, and Coinbase One members get a 1% rebate at closing, capped at $10,000.
                                  • Pakistan released a full licensing framework for crypto exchanges, custody, lending, and derivatives: apply for a no-objection certificate by September 5 or cease operations. Licensed providers must segregate customer assets and gain access to the formal banking system.
                                  • Quick headlines: the Wall Street Journal reports JPMorgan is considering its own stablecoin, HashKey Cloud joins Bitcoin staking on Stacks, and Galaxy Digital says last week's rise was Bitcoin's largest weekly dollar gain ever.
                                  • Treasury tracker: Strive +1,110 BTC (21,356), Empery Digital -100 (1,179). In the pipeline: Alpha Modus signed a $254M PIPE for 3,170 BTC, Genius Group plans $827M over five years, Capital B is raising €21M. Strategy: no buys, no sells; +$1.59B to its USD reserve and another $136M of STRC bought back.
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                                  22 min
                                • The Treasury Just Pumped Bitcoin: 7% Surge, Bullish IPOs With 24,300 BTC, MetaPlanet Comes to the US

                                  The Treasury yield hit 5.34%, its highest since 2007, and the Treasury answered by doubling its long-end bond buybacks. Bitcoin surged 7% in a day, its biggest move since March. Plus Bullish IPOs holding more BTC than Coinbase, MetaPlanet's US landing as SuperPlanet, the SEC's new crypto exemptions, and OrdinalsBot winds down.

                                  In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:

                                  • The Treasury yield hit 5.34% this week, the highest since 2007, and the Treasury responded by doubling long-end bond buybacks from $2B to $4B per operation starting September 9. The yield fell back to 5.187%, the dollar hit a 2.5-month low, and gold rallied past $4,500.
                                  • Bitcoin followed with a 7% single-day surge, its biggest since March: $1.4B in shorts liquidated in about four hours and $517M in ETF inflows, the biggest single day in three and a half months.
                                  • Bullish IPO'd and revealed 24,300 BTC in its financial statement, making it the sixth-largest public company holding Bitcoin, ahead of Strive, SpaceX, and Coinbase.
                                  • MetaPlanet is coming to America: a controlling stake in Super League Enterprise (SLE), to be renamed SuperPlanet under ticker SUPA and seeded with 2,100 of MetaPlanet's own BTC. CEO Simon Gerovich: two markets, two currencies, two investor bases, one balance sheet. Expected to close Q4.
                                  • The SEC proposed Regulation Crypto Assets: a one-time $5M exemption over four years and a $75M annual exemption from full securities registration, plus a safe harbor for qualifying crypto assets. Rules that may outlast the wait for Clarity.
                                  • Clarity gets its Senate vote September 15: cloture on the motion to proceed needs 60 votes, so at least seven Democrats have to cross the aisle. Call your senator.
                                  • OrdinalsBot is winding down and looking for bids to keep the brand alive. The first inscription service many ever used, and part of historic projects from Runestone to the Dog airdrop. End of an era.
                                  • Treasury tracker: Strive +79 BTC (20,246), Gemini revealed +1,698 (5,528), Capital B +5 (3,145), Canaan +2 (1,917), Remixpoint +9.98 (1,501). Strategy: no buys, no sells; USD reserve up $150M and $132M of STRC bought back via a common-stock ATM.
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                                  16 min
                                • Nobody Is Safe: Trezor Data Breach, BIP 110 Dies in Two Blocks, Coldcard Fallout Grows

                                  One week after Coldcard, Trezor got hit too: a shipping partner leaked nearly 12,000 customers' home addresses, phones, and emails. Plus BIP 110's two-block death, the Coldcard theft numbers, Tether's KPMG audit, and BlackRock's $1M door into IBIT.

                                  In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:

                                  • Trezor data breach: a shipping provider exposed the last 90 days of orders across seven countries. Nearly 12,000 customers had shipping address, phone, and email leaked. Funds are safe; it's a doxxing problem, and many victims had just fled Coldcard.
                                  • BIP 110 is dead. Mandatory signaling began at block 961,632; Antpool skipped the signal, Knots nodes rejected its block, and Roughnecks forked a competing chain, then quit two blocks in. Luke Dashjr took a sabbatical from Ocean and was removed as a BIP editor. RIP110.
                                  • Coldcard fallout, by the numbers (Alex Thorn, Galaxy): 8,300 addresses attacked, ~$112M (1,720 BTC) stolen and climbing. The victims were long-term, air-gapped savers. Seed from March 2021 to the patch with no dice rolls? Move your funds now. Victims: send your addresses to Thorn for an FBI-ready report.
                                  • The red team's AI sweep of 500+ open-source repos came back clean: Bitcoin itself is untouched. BTCPay Server is donating 0.21 BTC each to the red team and Craig Raw, plus a recovery bounty of 10%, up to 3 BTC.
                                  • The Bitcoin Policy Institute wants AI labs to give open-source devs trusted access to frontier models, after Claude and ChatGPT kept blocking security defenders. Signed by Strategy, Coinbase, Block, Galaxy, River, and BitGo.
                                  • Treasury tracker: Strategy sold 1,691 BTC to buy back $108M of STRC and ran a $653M MSTR ATM, now 840,447 BTC and $4.65B cash. Trump Media +4,622 BTC. OranjeBTC launched Digi11, an ETF of Bitcoin-ecosystem preferred shares (3,950 held). BitGo +74 (2,523).
                                  • The KYC honeypot keeps leaking: France's tax authority was hacked and 678,000 records leaked. Add a wallet shipping list and finding Bitcoiners gets easy.
                                  • Quick hits: BlackRock cut tax-free in-kind BTC-to-IBIT conversions from $25M to $1M. Tether passed a full KPMG audit: unqualified opinion. The .bitcoin TLD has 50+ endorsements but ICANN pace means maybe 2030. Netflix's FTX series The Altruists drops November 19. July's $432B US deficit: interest now costs more than the military or Medicare.
                                  • Brandon joined SoFi as their first crypto-native marketing hire. The show stays independent.
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                                  29 min

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