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Welcome to Issue #392 of Bitcoin Breakdown, where it’s OPSEC Wednesday special, followed by the latest Quick Bits snippets.

But first, today’s Top Stories:

• 🇫🇷 France Stuns By Proposing Banning Digital Euro & Endorsing Bitcoin

• 🇨🇳 China Swings the Banhammer at Stablecoins

• 🕊️ HRF Drops 1B Sats on Global Bitcoin Freedom Projects

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TODAY’S TOP STORIES

🇫🇷 France Stuns By Proposing Banning Digital Euro & Endorsing Bitcoin

French lawmakers adopted a resolution proposed by Éric Ciotti of the UDR party, which rejects the European Central Bank's digital euro while embracing Bitcoin and euro stablecoins as alternatives. The proposal calls for creating a strategic Bitcoin reserve of 420,000 BTC over 7 years (equivalent to 2% of the total supply), funded through public mining, seized assets, and government purchases. Despite holding only 16 of 577 parliamentary seats, Ciotti's proposal sparks crucial debate on integrating Bitcoin into France's national financial system. Cryptonews

🇨🇳 China Swings the Banhammer at Stablecoins

China’s Central Bank declared stablecoins a direct threat to global financial stability, vowing an even harsher crackdown on crypto activity. Governor Pan Gongsheng contends dollar-pegged tokens undermine monetary sovereignty and fuel speculation while dodging anti-money laundering rules. Since banning Bitcoin and crypto in 2017, Beijing has pushed its state-backed e-CNY as the ‘safe’ alternative. Now, the PBoC plans to monitor foreign stablecoin growth closely, keeping its zero-tolerance policy firmly in place. Atlas21

🕊️ HRF Drops 1B Sats on Global Bitcoin Freedom Projects

The Human Rights Foundation just distributed 1 billion satoshis to 20 projects worldwide, funding Bitcoin development, mining decentralization, and financial privacy tools for dissidents. Recipients include Silent Payments integration, censorship-resistant communications via Nostr, ecash solutions for Latin America, and Bitcoin education programs across Asia and Africa. These grants strengthen freedom technology for 5.9B people living under authoritarian regimes. Human Rights Foundation

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QUICK BITS

• Trump’s Truth Social partners with Crypto dot com to become the first publicly traded social media platform to offer prediction markets through 'Truth Predict’.

• Bill introduced to ban the US President, Congress members, and their families from trading or launching crypto ventures. 

• Strategy once again tipped for S&P 500 inclusion after Q3 earnings despite Bitcoin buying slowdown and investor sentiment decline, with 10X Research assigning 70% probability for December addition.

• Zero of 30 Bitcoin bull market peak indicators have triggered despite multiple all-time highs, suggesting BTC price could climb significantly higher before reaching cycle top.

• Bitcoin price volatility reaches historic lows after 4 months of trading between $106,000-$123,000, with weekly Bollinger Band Width hitting record depths that historically precede major trending moves exceeding 65% gains.

• F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang rejects Bitcoin's BIP-444 soft fork proposal designed to limit arbitrary on-chain data and combat spam transactions, calling it ’a bad idea’

• Brave Browser’s security researchers discover hidden prompt injection vulnerabilities in AI-powered browsers like Perplexity Comet that expose user data risks.

• Prenetics Global, a Hong Kong-based health sciences company, raises $48M in public equity offering to expand supplement brand IM8 and accelerate Bitcoin treasury strategy, purchasing one BTC daily.

• Voltage, a Lightning Network infrastructure provider, in an open letter urges Polymarket to integrate instant Bitcoin deposits through Lightning for real-time prediction market trading and enhanced user experience.

• Madras High Court, a judicial authority in India, recognizes cryptocurrency as legal 'property' under Indian law, marking a landmark ruling that establishes Bitcoin and crypto as ownable, transferable property capable of being held in trust.

• Metaplanet, Japan's leading bitcoin treasury company, launches a $500M share buyback program targeting 150M shares to boost capital efficiency and address declining market-to-net-asset value amid stock volatility.

• Canaan Inc, a leading Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer, launches Avalon A16 miner series featuring 12.8 J/TH efficiency and 300 TH/s hashrate, competing directly with Bitmain's flagship models.

• Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO, describes bitcoin and gold as 'assets of fear' while warning about US Treasury dependency on foreign buyers.

• BOB introduces Bitcoin Vault Liquidation Engine enabling BTC holders to borrow stablecoins against native bitcoin collateral while keeping assets secured on the Bitcoin network, reducing settlement times to under an hour.

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