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Welcome to Issue #341 of Bitcoin Breakdown, where we’re bringing you your end-of-week Bitcoin Digest featuring all the need-to-know Quick Bits snippets and Quick Media.

But first, today’s Top Stories:

• 🧩 Tether Bolts $167B USDT Directly onto Bitcoin via RGB

• 💰 Bitcoin Dynasties Rise as $84T Wealth Transfer Looms

• 💸 US Banks Wash Billions While BTC Gets the Blame

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TODAY’S TOP STORIES

🧩 Tether To Bolt $167B USDT Onto Bitcoin Off-Chain via RGB

Tether is bringing its $167B USDT stablecoin natively to Bitcoin using the RGB protocol which stores token data privately on user devices while anchoring proofs to Bitcoin transactions, enabling instant Lightning payments without clogging the blockchain. Previous protocols, such as Omni, encoded token data in Bitcoin transactions using OP_RETURN metadata, whereas RGB keeps token data off-chain. The integration lets Bitcoin wallets hold both BTC and USDT, send private transactions, and settle instantly, and ultimately makes most sh!tcoins even more redundant. CryptoSlate

💰 Bitcoin Dynasties Rise as $84T Wealth Transfer Looms

As Baby Boomers pass $84T in wealth to younger generations by 2045, Forbes reports that bitcoin is positioned for massive adoption since millennials and Gen Z show three times higher Bitcoin and crypto acceptance rates. Xapo Bank predicts this generational shift will create new 'bitcoin dynasties' comparable to the Rockefellers or Rothschilds, with $20M to $28M in daily buying pressure. The transfer represents a historic opportunity for Bitcoin to cement itself as generational wealth. Forbes

💸 US Banks Wash Billions While BTC Gets the Blame

An explosive new FinCEN report exposes how US banks funneled $312B for Chinese money launderers aiding Mexican drug cartels from 2020 to 2024. This is however still minuscule compared to the estimated amount of fiat laundered globally in one year, estimated at more than $2T, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Yet politicians like Senator Elizabeth Warren still target Bitcoin instead of the real culprits. Data shows that illicit Bitcoin and crypto use is under 1% of total activity, despite the fiat legacy banking sector’s far larger role in global crime. Cointelegraph

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QUICK BITS

• JPMorgan says that Bitcoin is ‘undervalued’ when set against gold, perpetuating the misguided notion that Bitcoin has a ‘fair value’ in fiat terms

• Marty Bent criticizes the US govt’s publication of GDP data to multiple blockchains, including Bitcoin, as useless virtue signalling, arguing it misunderstands the blockchain's true purpose of validating endogenous network data rather than external information.

• CFTC Acting Chairman Caroline Pham issues an advisory that clears the path for US citizens to trade Bitcoin on overseas exchanges like Binance through Foreign Board of Trade registration framework.

• Bitcoin Infrastructure Acquisition Corp, headed by CEO Ryan Gentry, who led business development at Lightning Labs, raises $200M SPAC to acquire Bitcoin and crypto companies for public market debuts.

• Lygos Finance teams up with Atomic Finance to launch non-custodial bitcoin-backed lending using Discrete Log Contracts to avoid custodial risks that destroyed Celsius, BlockFi and Voyager in 2022.

• Coinbase rapidly expands Bitcoin-backed lending to miners including Riot Platforms, CleanSpark, and Hut 8 with hundreds of millions in credit facilities.

• Cartwright Pension Trust, a pension advisory firm, warns trustees against ignoring Bitcoin Treasury Companies (BTCs) and says they risk covenant strength, portfolio performance, and liquidity by ignoring bitcoin's inflationary hedge potential.

• El Salvador President Nayib Bukele highlights surging bets on Kalshi and Polymarket that the nation's BTC holdings will hit $1B by late 2025.

• Crypto trader abducted near Paris for a €10,000 ransom as Bitcoin and crypto-related kidnappings continue to surge across France.

• Falconedge, a hedge fund advisory firm emerging from Falcon Investment Management, plans to allocate nearly 100% of its September IPO proceeds to building a Bitcoin treasury strategy.

• Venezuela sees growing Bitcoin and crypto adoption amid 229% inflation and bolívar's 70% collapse since October 2024.

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QUICK MEDIA

• Balaji Srinivasan, author of 'The Network State', speaking at Bitcoin Asia 2025 this week, explores the transformative consequences of Bitcoin's victory, including the end of Federal Reserve control, predictable monetary policy, the decline of fiat currencies, wealth redistribution to Bitcoin holders, and the emergence of Bitcoin as a constraint on government spending, while highlighting the various attacks Bitcoin will face and the need to build new governance structures (Aug 28 | 15:38 min watch). 

• Mark Moss, entrepreneur and financial educator, also speaking at Bitcoin Asia 2025, argues that AI's productivity surge combined with Bitcoin's fixed supply creates an unprecedented wealth opportunity, as Bitcoin can capture the deflationary benefits of technological advancement that central banks have historically stolen through money printing (Aug 28 | 22:16 min watch). 

• The Exit Manual, a newly launched YouTube channel by Julian Figueroa of Get Based, explores why people work harder yet feel poorer despite increased productivity, examining how the current monetary system creates debt cycles through money printing and proposing Bitcoin as a potential escape from this rigged financial system (Aug 29 | 4:46 min watch). 

• Jeff Booth, author of 'The Price of Tomorrow', discusses Bitcoin's transformative potential with Bitcoin Magazine's Frank Corva, arguing that deflation is the natural market state and Bitcoin will eventually decouple from existing systems, while exploring topics like El Salvador's Bitcoin experiment, the need for authentic leadership, and how Bitcoin represents a shift from zero-sum games to infinite possibilities where everyone can win (Aug 26 | 46:14 min watch). 

• Jimmy Song, author of 'Programming Bitcoin', shares his thoughts on recent attacks on Knots nodes by Portland HODL, arguing that this could actually make the network more resilient by making people aware of vulnerabilities (Aug 23 | 3:09 min watch). 

• Swan Bitcoin examines whether the U.S. government and Wall Street truly grasp Bitcoin's transformative potential, exploring its evolution from a 'currency of fear' to a 'currency of hope' and discussing strategies for widespread adoption to protect against potential government suppression (Aug 29 | 13:58 min watch).

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