Greetings Bitcoiner,

Welcome to issue #113 of the Bitcoin Breakdown, where we are celebrating the idea that anyone smart enough to run simple computers has been offered the opportunity not only to partake directly in the ultimate decentralized peer-to-peer electronic cash system but also to contribute to backing it with the biggest hashing network in the world. 🥳 

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🏆 FEATURE STORIES

• Dave Birnbaum, VP of product at Coinbits, highlights how Donald Trump's involvement with World Liberty Financial risks undermining Bitcoin’s progress by confusing it with speculative DeFi projects, potentially alienating both Bitcoin supporters and conservative followers (Sept 13 | 5 min read).

• Alex Bergeron, a chaos maximalist, publishes ‘The Financial Anarchist Manifesto’, explaining that a financial anarchist is someone who challenges centralized financial power by promoting decentralized alternatives like Bitcoin, Nostr, and Chaumian ecash (Sept 16 | 10 min read).

• Shane Neagle, editor-in-chief of The Tokenist, argues that urgent Bitcoin tax reform is essential to remove disincentives for everyday use, making low-value transactions exempt from capital gains tax and fostering broader adoption in commerce (Sept 16 | 8 min read).

• DarthCoin, an irreverent Bitcoin OG and educator, explains how to effectively manage lightning wallets by emphasizing liquidity distribution, regular movement of funds, and avoiding long-term stacking to optimize spending and support a healthy LN ecosystem (Sept 10 | 4 min read).

• Alex Fulton explores the complex interconnections between Bitcoin, Saturn, and synchronicity, illustrating how these themes reveal deeper meanings about time, money, and the nature of existence in the digital age (Sept 9 | 26 min read).

• Zaprite, a Bitcoin payments company, features a Q&A with Frontside Consulting, highlighting their journey into Bitcoin, the benefits of accepting it as payment, and how their digital marketing services align with the values of decentralization and financial freedom (Sept 13 | 9 min read).

• Foundation, a hardware wallet manufacturer, publishes a thread debunking 5 common Bitcoin security myths, emphasizing the importance of self-custody, privacy, and selecting the right wallet to ensure greater control and protection over your Bitcoin (Sept 11 | 1 min read).

• DesertDave, a Bitcoiner on Stacker News, showcases how he mines Bitcoin off-grid on an extreme budget using repurposed solar panels, a salvaged trailer, and affordable lithium batteries, demonstrating a DIY approach to solar-powered mining (Sept 10 | 3 min read).

• Daniel Batten publishes a post on X highlighting 19 impactful benefits of Bitcoin, including humanitarian aid, financial inclusion, energy independence, environmental improvements, and support for liberal democracies (Sept 11 | 2 min read).

• Daniel Batten also critically examines the media’s portrayal of noise from Bitcoin mining in Granbury, Texas, revealing omissions about existing industrial noise sources and misleading claims, questioning whether reporting has unfairly targeted Bitcoin operations (Sept 16 | 8 min read).

• Jon Hodl publishes an article in What Is Bitcoin with a list of 21 tools that Bitcoiners can use to help their friends and family to see the value of the hardest money in history (Sept 11 | 18 min read).

• Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer of Bitwise, examines why Septembers consistently bring negative returns for Bitcoin and other risk assets, attributing it to factors like market expectations, SEC enforcement, and seasonal trends, and anticipates a potential rally in October (Sept 10 | 5 min read).

• Che Kohler of The Bitcoin Manual reviews SolarBit, a solar-powered Bitcoin miner set to launch in Q4 2024, combining renewable energy with mining to provide a cost-efficient, mobile solution for home and small-scale mining (Sept 13 | 7 min read).

• Mark E. Jeftovic of Bombthrower Media also scrutinizes the ‘Trump Crypto’ World Liberty Financial, suggesting it may be a scam or ‘rug-pull’ due to suspicious tokenomics and questionable affiliations, raising concerns about its legitimacy and potential impact (Sept 13 | 7 min read).

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🛠️ TOOLS & PROJECTS

• DanaWallet offers a user-friendly mobile wallet designed for Bitcoin donations, utilizing silent payments for enhanced privacy and simplicity.

• Coinos, a free and open source bitcoin and lightning web wallet with Nostr integration, enables NIP 47 Nostr Wallet Connect.

• Brick wallet by Super Testnet is a basic web wallet that acts as a frontend for Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) backends.

• RY3T ONE, a device that uses the waste heat from computing power to heat your home, can now be pre-ordered.

• SatShoot creates an unstoppable freelance economy on Nostr by eliminating middlemen, enabling instant payments (on Lighting and soon ecash).

• Peach Bitcoin launches Strike as a payment method for the EUR and GBP markets.

• Orange Pill App introduces The Explorer feature that lets you search any city in the world to see how many Orange Pill App members are there.

• Crypton.sh is an app that gives you an anonymous phone number that can be bought with bitcoin, which you can receive and send messages with privately.

• BoardWalk Cash v0.3.1 introduces ecash eGifts, which have unique ecash values and can be shared on any social media or messaging platform.

• BitVotr is a new voting protocol by Arman the Parman to fight election fraud.

• Peter Todd starts a new fund on Geyser for Libre Relay, a fork of Bitcoin Core that removes paternalistic transaction filtering and peers with other Libre Relay nodes to ensure transactions that would have been blocked by Core can reach miners anyway.

• ShopinBit, the largest European Bitcoin e-commerce platform, is expanding to Switzerland.

• bconf.org is a website that helps you discover Bitcoin conferences happening around the world in one place.

• Bitcoin Nakawa is a community initiative in Nakawa, a group of multiple villages in an area known as ‘Kazangula’ in South-western Zambia, that supports their goal to sustain themselves and fund the operation of their school.

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