Your Weekly Bitcoin Breakdown Compilation 📬

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First off, a summary of the past week’s Top Stories:

• 🇫🇷 France Labels Bitcoin 'Unproductive Wealth' for New Tax

• 🏭 Bitcoin's 'Silent IPO' Shows Mature Market Evolution

• 🇩🇪 AfD Pushes Bitcoin Into Germany’s Strategic Vault

• 🇺🇸 Trump Bets on Bitcoin & Crypto Supremacy, Defends CZ Pardon

• 🔒 US Seeks Max Term for Samourai Devs

• 🔌 Bitcoin Miners Power Up Big Tech’s AI Dreams

• 📉 OG Bitcoin Whales Dump $41B as as Extreme Fear Grips Markets

• 🏛️ Lummis Says Bitcoin Reserve Only Solution to US Debt Crisis

• 🇰🇵 US Sanctions North Korean Crypto Laundering Network Worth $3B

• 🛒 Bitcoin Accumulators Set Records While Others Panic

• 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan Plans to Stack Bitcoin w/ Gold Reserves

• 🇨🇭 Adam Back Buys The Dip, Securing $35M for New Institutional BTC Treasury

• 🔮 JPMorgan Sees Bitcoin Hitting $170K in 6-12 Months

• 🔒 Samourai Wallet Dev Gets 5 Years for ‘Unlicensed Privacy’

• 🏹 Robinhood Eyes Adding Bitcoin To Balance Sheet

TOP STORIES THE WEEK

🇫🇷 France Labels Bitcoin 'Unproductive Wealth' for New Tax

France just passed a law taxing large Bitcoin holdings alongside yachts and luxury cars as 'unproductive wealth.' The new tax hits individuals with net assets over 2M euros at a 1% rate, including unrealized Bitcoin and crypto gains. Previously, France only taxed real estate wealth, but now digital assets fall under the same rules. Bitcoiners must report all holdings, including foreign wallets, to avoid penalties. Ledger co-founder Éric Larchevêque criticized the move as punishing savers seeking financial protection outside the fiat system. Cointelegraph

🏭 Bitcoin's 'Silent IPO' Shows Mature Market Evolution

A weekend essay by 30+ year Wall Street veteran, Jordi Visser, titled ‘Bitcoin’s Silent IPO’ went viral. The easy outlines that Bitcoin's current consolidation resembles a traditional IPO distribution, as early holders methodically sell to institutional buyers, evidenced by Galaxy Digital's recent $9B transaction. This isn't panic selling, but rather strategic exits by original adopters who've already won and feel that, for the first time, they can now exit their position without hurting the market. The ownership transition from concentrated to distributed hands promises reduced volatility and greater institutional adoption, positioning Bitcoin as a mature and stable asset, despite current retail frustration. BeInCrypto

🇩🇪 AfD Pushes Bitcoin Into Germany’s Strategic Vault

Germany’s main opposition party, AfD, has filed a motion to recognize Bitcoin as a national strategic asset, arguing it’s a world apart from altcoins and shouldn’t be smothered by the EU’s MiCA rules. The proposal defends tax perks like a 12-month capital gains exemption and VAT-free trading, plus citizens’ right to self-custody. AfD envisions Bitcoin as a modern gold – potentially even in national reserves—joining a growing EU trend toward stacking sats for financial sovereignty. Atlas21

🇺🇸 Trump Bets on Bitcoin & Crypto Supremacy, Defends CZ Pardon

In a 60 Minutes interview, President Trump doubled down on making US Bitcoin and crypto dominance a national priority, calling it a ‘winner-takes-all’ industry rivaling artificial intelligence in importance. He also warned of China’s rapid expansion in terms of crypto, saying that ‘China is getting into it very big’. Trump also defended pardoning Binance founder CZ, saying that ‘I know nothing about the guy’, but framing his release as a stand against political bias and the Biden administration’s war on crypto, positioning it as a strategic move to safeguard US leadership. Bitcoin Magazine

🔒 US Seeks Max Term for Samourai Devs

The US government wants 5 years for Samourai Wallet creators Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill, accusing them of building Bitcoin privacy tools to launder $237M from darknet markets and other crimes. Although they pled guilty only to running an unlicensed money transmission service, prosecutors framed their privacy-focused Bitcoin tools as a criminal magnet. The devs insist they acted within legal advice, building Samourai to safeguard Bitcoin’s role as uncensorable digital cash, not as a laundering machine. Sentencing is set for Nov 6-7 in New York’s Southern District. The Rage

🔌 Bitcoin Miners Power Up Big Tech’s AI Dreams

Bitcoin miners IREN and Cipher Mining just inked massive AI infrastructure deals with Microsoft and Amazon worth over $21B combined. Once focused solely on stacking sats, these miners are now cashing in on excess power, land, and data-center capacity to host hyperscale AI workloads. Investors love the hybrid model – steady BTC income plus high-growth tech revenue – which has sent both companies’ stocks soaring. The trend shows miners can evolve into diversified tech heavyweights without dropping the orange pill. The Block

📉 OG Bitcoin Whales Dump $41B as as Extreme Fear Grips Markets

Long-term Bitcoin holders just liquidated $41.6B worth of BTC as the price briefly dropped below $100K for the first time since June. Mining profitability has hit record lows with electricity consuming up to 60% of expenses, forcing miners to sell holdings. The drop follows massive Exchange Traded Fund outflows exceeding $1.8B and mounting macro headwinds, including Federal Reserve hawkishness. Raoul Pal however expects Treasury spending of $250B-350B once the shutdown ends, while Arthur Hayes predicts stealth quantitative easing through repo facilities. All in all, maximum fear equals maximum opportunity. BeInCrypto

🏛️ Lummis Says Bitcoin Reserve Only Solution to US Debt Crisis

Senator Cynthia Lummis champions a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve as the sole meaningful solution to America's ballooning national debt, praising Trump's administration for embracing the concept. Officials are exploring funding structures beyond gold revaluation, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reviewing options. The reserve would start with over 130,000 BTC from criminal forfeitures, worth $34B, using budget-neutral strategies to avoid new taxpayer costs while diversifying sovereign assets. Cryptonews

🇰🇵 US Sanctions North Korean Crypto Laundering Network Worth $3B

The US Treasury sanctioned 8 North Korean nationals and 2 companies for helping Pyongyang launder billions from cryptocurrency thefts to fund nuclear weapons programs. Among those targeted were bankers managing $5.3M in crypto for sanctioned First Credit Bank and IT workers using fake identities to earn freelance income abroad. North Korean hackers have stolen over $3B in crypto over three years, including a massive $1.5B theft from Bybit exchange using malware and social engineering tactics. DL News

🛒 Bitcoin Accumulators Set Records While Others Panic

Bitcoin accumulator wallets have smashed records by buying 375,000 BTC in 30 days, with 50,000 BTC added Tuesday alone as price dipped below $100,000. Despite market panic, diamond hands doubled their monthly average from 130,000 to 262,000 BTC in under 2 months. Meanwhile, the current correction from seems to be driven mainly by retail panic rather than fundamentals and remains entirely normal by historical standards, indicating that smart money continues to stack sats. Analysts are calling this is a typical bull market turbulence magnified by excessive futures trading and market reactivity to headlines. Cointelegraph

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan Plans to Stack Bitcoin w/ Gold Reserves

Kazakhstan's central bank is considering converting gold and foreign exchange reserves into Bitcoin and crypto to build a strategic digital asset reserve. Deputy Chairman Berik Sholpankulov revealed the nation may use funds from its National Fund and existing reserves to buy the sound money. The Central Asian country is also exploring state-owned mining operations and requiring private miners to pay bills in digital assets, positioning itself as a major Bitcoin hub. Cryptopolitan

🇨🇭 Adam Back Buys The Dip, Securing $35M for New Institutional BTC Treasury

Future Holdings, led by Bitcoin pioneer Adam Back, raised $35M to expand institutional Bitcoin treasury operations as BTC dipped below $100,000 this week. The Zurich-based firm secured Swiss francs from Fulgur Ventures and others, betting on long-term conviction over short-term panic. With Switzerland's zero base rates and strong financial infrastructure, FUTURE offers treasury management, research, and advisory services to global institutions seeking disciplined BTC exposure. CoinDesk

🔮 JPMorgan Sees Bitcoin Hitting $170K in 6-12 Months

JPMorgan analysts [bearishly] predict Bitcoin could reach [only] $170K within 6 to 12 months based on volatility-adjusted comparisons to gold. The bank believes deleveraging in perpetual futures is largely complete after record liquidations in October. With Bitcoin's current volatility ratio making it more attractive than gold on a risk-adjusted basis, analysts see significant upside potential ahead. The Block

🔒 Samourai Wallet Dev Gets 5 Years for ‘Unlicensed Privacy’

Keonne Rodriguez, co-creator of the Bitcoin privacy tool Samourai Wallet, has been sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined $250,000 for conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. Prosecutors painted him as courting criminal users, while his defense argued for Bitcoin’s legitimate need for privacy protections like CoinJoin and Ricochet. Despite the DOJ recently claiming it won’t target developers for code alone, Judge Cote handed down the maximum term, citing a lack of contrition. The Rage

🏹 Robinhood Eyes Adding Bitcoin To Balance Sheet

Robinhood is considering adding Bitcoin to its balance sheet while Bitcoin and crypto revenue skyrocketed 300% year-over-year to $268M in Q3. The trading platform beat earnings expectations with $1.27B total revenue and growing user base of 26.8M funded accounts. Leadership weighs signaling benefits to the Bitcoin and crypto community against capital allocation costs. Meanwhile, the company expands internationally through Bitstamp acquisition and diversifies into wealth management services. Cointelegraph

OPINION & ANALYSIS

• Giacomo Zucco, Director at Plan B Network, argues that Bitcoin Core v30 doesn't meaningfully increase legal risks from data encoding since arbitrary data storage was always possible 'by design' from Satoshi's genesis block, while criticizing BIP444 as poorly designed consensus-splitting overreach (Nov 3 | 5 min read).

• Becca Bratcher, author of '21 Women in Bitcoin', writing for Forbes, argues that Bitcoin mining in Texas serves as an unlikely catalyst for cheaper energy by providing grid stability, monetizing surplus renewables, and transforming from an energy drain into a flexible demand solution that supports the state's deregulated power market (Nov 2 | 5 min read).

• Rizful, a Lightning Network company, in a post on Nostr, warns that Stephan Livera's recent podcast episode with Lightspark CTO Kevin Hurley dangerously misleads listeners by comparing Spark's closed, centralized service provider system to Lightning's open LSP standard, arguing that Lightspark's control over all Spark operators creates privacy risks and regulatory vulnerabilities (Nov 1 | 4 min read).

• Shawn Yeager, host of the 'Trust Revolution' podcast, argues that freedom tech must prioritize user experience over ideological purity to compete with centralized platforms, warning that Bitcoin, Lightning, and Nostr risk remaining niche without commercial excellence matching their technical achievements (Oct 31 | 10 min read).

• Che Kohler of The Bitcoin Manual analyzes how BIP-444, a controversial proposal by anonymous developer Dathon Ohm, seeks to implement a temporary soft fork restricting arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions, sparking fierce community debate over Bitcoin's fundamental purpose as money versus censorship-resistant ledger (Oct 31 | 9 min read).

• Jasonb, a Bitcoin Ekasi volunteer, demonstrates how to transform any 3D printer into an 'orange pilling machine' by creating durable QR code keychains and necklaces that enable service workers to easily receive bitcoin tips without needing smartphones (Oct 31 | 5 min read).

• Max Musumeci, a Lightning Network researcher, explains how the Lightning Network employs source-based onion routing with the SPHINX protocol to enable private, censorship-resistant bitcoin payments while giving senders complete control over routing paths (Oct 30 | 11 min read).

• SimpleStacker, in a post on Stacker News, reviews the Jimmy Song versus Peter Todd debate on spam filters at Plan ₿ Lugano 2025, analyzing their opposing positions on whether Bitcoin nodes should filter non-monetary transactions to preserve the network's primary monetary function (Oct 30 | 5 min read).

• Nothingmuch of Spiral explores the evolving definition of 'CoinJoin' from Greg Maxwell's 2013 equal-amount privacy transactions to encompassing multiparty batching, PayJoin steganographic payments, and even Lightning channels, arguing that Bitcoin privacy depends on widespread adoption of privacy-preserving practices rather than theoretical limitations (Oct 29 | 13 min read).

• Shinobi of Bitcoin Magazine argues that Bitcoin Knots' transaction filtering represents a failed denial-of-service attack on the Bitcoin network that degrades relay services while failing to prevent 'spam' transactions from reaching miners or being included in blocks (Oct 28 | 5 min read).

• Gigi of OpenSats chronicles his 21-day experiment building 'Boris,' a nostr-native reading app using only AI prompts, exploring the potential and pitfalls of 'vibe-coding' while advocating for decentralized alternatives to traditional walled-garden reading platforms (Nov 1 | 20 min read).

• Bill Laboon, vice president of Ecosystem at the Web3 Foundation, argues that the EU's ProtectEU initiative creates 'digital feudalism' by mandating on-device scanning before encryption, establishing a two-tier security system where states maintain strong encryption while citizens face surveillance and weakened privacy protections (Oct 31 | 4 min read).

• Max, a privacy advocate and contributor to White Noise and the Marmot messaging protocol on Nostr, explains why leveraging open source MLS protocol developments from IETF researchers offers superior security solutions compared to creating custom cryptographic implementations (Oct 31 | 2 min read).

• Early Riders, a venture firm pioneering bitcoin adoption, argues in a new report that advanced software, AI, and bitcoin represent the highest-leverage deflationary tools, creating significant opportunities for companies to reinvest in business operations or return capital to shareholders (Oct 31 | 6 min read).

• Shinobi of Bitcoin Magazine argues that Bitcoin users collectively determine the system's purpose through actual usage rather than being constrained by Satoshi Nakamoto's 17-year-old whitepaper, which serves as a high-level description rather than a founding document (Oct 31 | 3 min read).

• Nina Bambysheva of Forbes examines how Bitcoin Magazine's David Bailey is attempting to transform tiny Utah healthcare firm KindlyMD into a major bitcoin treasury company through reverse merger, despite NAKA stock plummeting 98% amid massive dilution from private equity deals (Oct 30 | 6 min read).

• Plain Memo, writing for Bitcoin Magazine, argues that Tether's USDT stablecoin and the GENIUS Act are quietly undermining Bitcoin's revolutionary promise by creating a 'CBDC by proxy' that extends fiat system surveillance and control while co-opting Bitcoin advocates through sponsorships and partnerships (Oct 29 | 5 min read).

• Expatriotic, a Bitcoin writter, explains how to install Fulcrum 2.0.0 as a private Electrum server on Ubuntu, enabling users to query their Bitcoin node for wallet balances and transaction histories while keeping financial data on their own hardware (Oct 29 | 4 min read).

• Lisa Tscherry, founder of SatoShe, connects behavioral understanding with Bitcoin education to empower women through accessible workshops, arguing that both psychology and money are fundamental to society's functioning while advocating for neutral, educational approaches over investment evangelism (Oct 29 | 5 min read).

• Ayanfe Fakunle, writing for Disruption Banking, analyzes how Nigeria's youth are abandoning the Naira for bitcoin and crypto due to economic instability, high inflation, currency devaluation, and limited banking access, driving Nigeria to become the world's 6th largest market in the ecosystem (Oct 29 | 3 min read).

• Alby, a lightning wallet provider, explores a novel trust-minimized multi-user NWC wallet architecture using Ark or Spark protocols that enables seamless programmable bitcoin payments while addressing mobile wallet limitations and reducing operator dependence through individual user keys and collaborative signing models (Oct 28 | 6 min read).

• Jon Helgi Egilsson, writing for Forbes, argues that Bitcoin's 17-year journey from rebellious technology to institutional acceptance by Wall Street banks represents creative destruction in action, but warns the revolution remains incomplete until individuals embrace self-custody and financial sovereignty over convenience (Oct 28 | 6 min read).

• Andy Savage, writing for Lightning News, argues that current AI models are bloated and centralized due to corporate abundance bias, proposing a distributed AI network powered by Lightning micropayments where users contribute spare compute cycles and earn bitcoin for processing tasks, creating sovereignty-preserving intelligence infrastructure (Oct 28 | 6 min read).

• Be Water, in part 5 of its article series on Bitcoin treasury companies recently featured on Bitcoin Audible, introduces the 'Paper Bitcoin Razor,’ — a proof-of-alignment test revealing how Bitcoin treasury company executives legally enrich themselves through misaligned compensation structures while retail investors suffer massive losses, arguing that management incentives fundamentally diverge from shareholder interests despite public proclamations of Bitcoin alignment (Nov 5 | 17 min read).

• Giacomo Zucco, Director of Plan ₿ Network, in an interview with Atlas21, argues that Arkade will revolutionize the Lightning Network by solving user onboarding challenges while dismissing quantum computing threats and praising El Salvador's strategic Bitcoin adoption despite IMF butthurt (Nov 4 | 6 min read).

• Jaran Mellerud, Co-Founder and CEO of Hashlabs, argues that Russia's era of explosive bitcoin mining growth fueled by cheap Soviet-era electricity surplus has ended as the industry now consumes 3% of national electricity and faces rising tariffs, new regulations, and territorial restrictions forcing miners toward off-grid associated gas operations (Nov 4 | 19 min read).

• Glenn Cameron, Global Head at Onramp Institutional, argues that sovereign wealth funds should allocate 1-5% of portfolios to bitcoin as 'outside money' hedge against inflation, geopolitical risks, and traditional asset correlation breakdowns in today's changed macroeconomic environment (Nov 4 | 28 min read).

• Kilian Rausch, CEO of Boltz, in an interview with Janusz Nowakowski for Lightning News, explains how Boltz builds trustless atomic swaps connecting Bitcoin's mainchain, Lightning Network, Liquid, and other layers, enabling seamless value transfer as Bitcoin evolves into enterprise-ready financial infrastructure (Nov 3 | 7 min read).

• Mark Zala, CEO of GoMining, argues that institutional investors are increasingly shifting from direct Bitcoin holdings to mining infrastructure investments, seeking yield-generating assets that offer operational leverage, steady returns, and exposure to Bitcoin's long-term appreciation while supporting renewable energy integration (Nov 3 | 4 min read).

• Frank Shostak, Associated Scholar at the Mises Institute, argues that corporate profits don't drive general price inflation, explaining that consumers ultimately determine prices through their purchasing decisions while central bank money supply expansion remains the primary cause of widespread price increases (Nov 3 | 6 min read).

• John Carvalho, CEO of Synonym, argues that drivechains fail to provide trustless scaling by creating exit bottlenecks, substituting peer-level trust with miner control, fragmenting liquidity across sidechains, and introducing new incentive distortions that ultimately undermine credible exits for millions of users (Nov 2 | 4 min read).

• Jason Nelson of Decrypt warns that while quantum computers remain a decade away from breaking Bitcoin's encryption, market panic and slow governance could crash Bitcoin values long before any actual quantum threat materializes (Nov 2 | 9 min read).

• Prashanth, Founder of Bringin, explains why 'living the standard' matters by sharing his journey from struggling with expensive remittances to building infrastructure that enables bitcoiners to save, spend and manage finances seamlessly across fiat and Bitcoin systems (Nov 1 | 5 min read).

QUICK BITS

• Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary, marks Bitcoin’s 17th anniversary by praising its flawless uptime and contrasting it with the ongoing federal shutdown that has sidelined 900,000 workers.

• Steak ‘n Shake rolls out a Bitcoin treasury, stacking all BTC payments in a strategic reserve while donating 210 sats per ‘Bitcoin Meal’ to OpenSats to fuel Bitcoin Core development.

• Japan launches its first state-linked Bitcoin mining project, weaving Canaan’s 4.5 MW hydro-cooled Avalon rigs into its renewable energy strategy.

• Coinhub, a Bitcoin ATM operator, fined $675K by California's Department of Financial Protection and Innovation for overcharging customers and violating digital asset laws.

• Core Scientific shareholders reject a $9B merger with CoreWeave, ending the all-stock deal that would have given CoreWeave access to 1.3 gigawatts of power across the Bitcoin miner's data center network.

• Iran's energy chief reveals that 95% of the country's 427,000 Bitcoin mining devices operate illegally, consuming over 1,400 megawatts.

• Nordea, Scandinavia's largest bank with $286B in assets under management, reverses its 2018 Bitcoin ban to offer customers a Bitcoin exchange-traded product in December.

• Riot Platforms, a major Bitcoin mining company, shifts strategy to maximize power value rather than just mining BTC, planning a 1-gigawatt AI data center campus despite a 27% production increase.

• Coinbase adds 2772 BTC worth $300M to take its total holdings to 14,548 BTC.

• Bitcoin whales now systematically create market fakeouts through 'Buy the Rumor, Sell the News' strategies during major economic announcements, according to Santiment analyst Brian Quinlivan.

• du, UAE's leading telecommunications company, launches Cloud Miner platform enabling residents to participate in regulated Bitcoin mining through subscription-based computational power rental without hardware or energy costs.

• Fidelity now enables retail customers to deposit and withdraw Bitcoin directly from brokerage accounts.

• Metaplanet borrows $100M loan by using its Bitcoin as collateral to buy more bitcoin.

• Standard Chartered launches Bitcoin custody services in Hong Kong for January 2026.

• David Sacks, President Trump's crypto and AI czar, positions crypto as 'the industry of the future' while advocating for regulatory clarity.

• Strategy files for 3.5M euro-denominated perpetual preferred stock shares to fund bitcoin acquisitions and operations.

• Lolli, a Bitcoin rewards platform, acquires Slice browser extension to consolidate the fragmented Bitcoin rewards space and enable users to earn BTC through both shopping and passive browsing activities.

• Lava, a bitcoin-backed lending platform, raises $200M in funding and launches Bitcoin Line of Credit offering competitive 5% interest rates for revolving credit lines.

• Miners face revenue squeeze as hashprice plummets to $43.1 per petahash amid BTC price correction and record mining difficulty, prompting pivot to becoming AI data centers.

• Sequans, a Paris-based IoT semiconductor provider, sells 970 BTC to cut its convertible debt by half.

• BlackRock launches iShares Bitcoin ETF on Australia's ASX in mid-November, offering regulated local exposure to BTC.

• Hut 8, a bitcoin mining company, enters the top 10 largest public bitcoin holders with 13,696 BTC worth $1.6B after growing its stockpile over 50% year-over-year through Q3 2025.

• Matador Technologies secures a $100M convertible facility from ATW Partners to accumulate Bitcoin holdings targeting 1% of total supply by 2027.

• LNBIG, a lightning network node operator, analyzes massive Bitcoin flows to exchanges, discovering that users leverage Boltz swaps and Lightning's privacy to fund Binance/OKX accounts while avoiding on-chain scrutiny.

• HIVE Digital Technologies, a bitcoin mining company, reaches 23 EH/s in mining capacity while also converting facilities into AI-ready data centers to support up to 36,000 GPUs by 2026.

• NIP Group, an Abu Dhabi-based company, expands Bitcoin mining capacity to 11.3 EH/s, becoming MENA's largest operator and generating approximately 160 BTC monthly.

• Calle, Cashu protocol developer, reveals a vulnerability in Nutshell mint that allowed free storage of images in databases due to unchecked witness sizes, highlighting ironic parallels to Bitcoin inscription debates.

• Swan Bitcoin launches its services in New York and offers buying, custody, and unlimited withdrawals to residents.

• Mining industry remains largely disengaged from ongoing spam filter controversy, with most miners and pools focusing on operations rather than technical debates unlike previous block size wars.

• Tenerife's Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies prepares to sell 97 bitcoins purchased for €10,000 in 2012 research project, now worth $10M after 1,000x price appreciation over 13 years.

• New on Geyser: Flexible Helps, a Bitcoin-based humanitarian initiative, supports orphanages and people in need by providing essential supplies, healthcare, construction repairs, and clean water access while promoting Bitcoin adoption globally.

• New on Geyser: JP Gaviria introduces a Spark SDK integration for CDK mints, enabling nodeless Lightning Network payments without managing nodes or liquidity for self-custodial bitcoin transactions.

• Bitkey launches the first private collaborative multisig wallet using Chain Code Delegation, eliminating privacy tradeoffs while maintaining security and usability for self-custody users.

• Abundant Mines integrates DATUM, the decentralized block template system from Ocean Mining, offering miners 1% pool fees and greater control over Bitcoin mining operations to reduce centralized infrastructure reliance.

• Bull Bitcoin introduces Recoverbull, an open-source protocol that improves hot wallet backup by separating encrypted backup files stored in cloud services from decryption keys held on secure servers.

• Supertestnet, a Bitcoin developer, launches Aggeus Market, an open protocol enabling permissionless prediction markets on Bitcoin using DLCs, lightning, and PSBT auctions without requiring other blockchains or custodians.

• Arké Wallet is a native macOS application built with SwiftUI for managing Bitcoin transactions through the Ark protocol, offering enhanced privacy and scalability features for experimental testing purposes.

• Murch, a Bitcoin developer, formally proposes a motion to activate BIP 3 to replace the current BIP 2 process after seven months of review and 600+ GitHub comments.

• Bitcoin Core developers release comprehensive transcripts from October 2025 Frankfurt meetup covering 18 technical sessions on ASMap, quantum resistance, cluster mempool, consensus improvements, etc.

• Bitcoin++ hosts its first eastern conference featuring hackathon, workshops, and leading developers in Taipei, Taiwan on December 15-17, 2025.

• TheCharlatan, a Bitcoin developer, introduces C header API for the libbitcoinkernel library, enabling external applications to interface with Bitcoin Core's validation logic through block operations and cross-language compatibility.

• Lava launches a Bitcoin-backed line of credit with no monthly payments, open terms, and sub-7% fixed rates, enabling instant dollar access without selling BTC.

• SatGo, a Bitcoin wallet app, launches instant Bitcoin payments through Spark Network integration on iOS, with Android integration coming soon.

• Bitnod dot es by BitMEX research tracks Bitcoin network node distribution by client versions, providing real-time statistics on peer connections with data updated every two hours from actual reported peers to Bitcoin nodes.

• Blitz Wallet, a self-custodial Bitcoin lightning and liquid wallet, releases major update featuring faster startup times, streamlined contact payments, refined receive page design, and expanded translation support.

• Nut November hackathon invites Cashu builders to compete for 200,000 sats in prizes up till November 30th, celebrating privacy-preserving ecash development on Bitcoin.

• SN-graph-explorer is an interactive visualization tool for exploration of Stacker News' knowledge graph.

• BeeEvolved transforms Bitcoin mining e-waste from Bitmain S21 Pro miners into sustainable honey bee hives, featuring syrup feeders, observation windows, and beetle traps while promoting open-source hardware sustainability.

• BlackRock & Fidelity led a rebound in spot Bitcoin ETFs inflows on Thursday, as traders shifted their focus to the 50-week EMA at about $100,000 following a 6 day outflow streak.

• American Bitcoin Corp acquires 139 BTC, increasing total holdings to 4,004 BTC.

• Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who became one of the first US politicians to take his salary in BTC, reports 300% gains on his bitcoin paychecks since receiving pay at $30,000 per coin.

• Bitcoin miners like CleanSpark and Core Scientific face regulatory uncertainty after Georgia's Public Service Commission election results as the narrowed GOP majority may revisit rate-freeze policies and large-load exemptions that currently benefit mining operations.

• US appeals court rules that FBI is not liable for wiping a hard drive containing 3,443 BTC worth $345M, citing convicted identity thief Michael Prime's failure to disclose ownership during legal proceedings.

• OpenSats announces the 13th wave of Nostr grants, funding 4 new projects including ZapTracker, Keydex, Bigbrotr, and Grasp, plus 5 renewals to advance creator tools, security, and decentralized collaboration.

• Jack Dorsey's Block generates $1.97B from Bitcoin revenue in Q3 2024, marking its 2nd largest income stream despite year-over-year decline.

• Orange Pill App rebrands to Club Orange after 3 years of connecting 19,000 Bitcoiners worldwide who built meetups, friendships, and businesses together.

• Blockspace reveals that Russia has quietly become the world's 2nd largest bitcoin mining hub, controlling 15.51% of global hashrate behind only the United States.

• Bitcoin treasuries experience the worst month on record as public companies add only 14,400 BTC worth $1.4B in October, marking a 63% drop from September amid collapsing premiums and market saturation.

• Polish Bitcoin community sends 560 copies of 'The Bitcoin Standard' to Parliament members, aiming to educate lawmakers about Bitcoin fundamentals before they vote on restrictive legislation.

• Lava, a bitcoin-collateral lender, faces social media allegations including involuntary fund transfers, centralized oracle use, forced DLC migration, and misleading interest rates.

TOOLS & PROJECTS

• New on Geyser: D++ spreads bitcoin literacy through Mario Kart: Double Sats, a gaming experience that teaches Lightning Network usage at global meetups while players race and earn real bitcoin rewards.

• New on Geyser: GuateLibre, an independent Guatemalan association promoting Austrian School economics and Bitcoin maximalism, develops educational programs inspired by Plan B Network to teach monetary sovereignty and economic freedom through Bitcoin adoption across educational institutions and meetups.

• Keep Android Open is a campaign that mobilizes global resistance against Google's 2026 mandatory developer registration requirements that threaten sideloading, F-Droid, and Android's open platform promise through regulatory complaints and developer boycotts.

• Fold partners with Steak 'n Shake to offer customers $5 in bitcoin rewards through the Fold app when making purchases.

• FutureBit launches Solo Node, a $299 Bitcoin stratum solo server and ARM desktop computer featuring 8-core processor, up to 16GB LPDDR5X RAM, dual NVMe bays, and Apollo OS 2 for self-sovereign mining operations.

• Phoenix Wallet introduces full Taproot channel support delivering 20% on-chain fee reductions and enhanced privacy features for its users.

• Bull Bitcoin partners with Coinkite to integrate COLDCARD Q support into BULL Wallet for seamless cold storage purchases and secure PSBT spending without exposing private keys.

• Miniscript Studio is an online IDE powered by Rust Miniscript crate for creating and analyzing Bitcoin scripts with policy editors, Taproot support, and learning resources.

• Bitcoin Core devs gather in Frankfurt for their regular biannual meeting, discussing key technical improvements including cluster mempool, quantum resistance, package relay, and silent payments development progress.

• Nostr user discovers a Strike-Venmo integration feature allowing Bitcoin users to pay through Venmo with zero fees while remaining on a Bitcoin standard.

• Rabble, Nostr developer, prepares to launch short-form video Nostr app at WebSummit Lisbon, seeking beta testers while proposing NIP-71 updates for video metadata editing and a new way to sign video content to verify authenticity called ProofMode.

• Lightning-vulns is a repository that maintains a comprehensive Lightning Network vulnerability database tracking CVEs from 2019 to 2025, including critical channel funding attacks, dust limit exploits, and recent Eclair preimage extraction vulnerabilities.

• Maple AI launches anonymous accounts requiring no email, featuring unique account IDs, user-set passwords, and Bitcoin-only payments for enhanced privacy protection.

• Economía Bitcoin announces its second annual conference in Berlín, El Salvador, featuring four pillars of circular Bitcoin economies through community leadership, technology innovation, entrepreneurship development, and sustainable economic growth on November 22-23, 2025.

• Arkash by Super Testnet is a project that uses the Ark protocol as backend to recreate self-custodial ecash-like payment experience without requiring recipients to be online.

• Hodlbod, a Nostr developer, releases Flotilla 1.4.0 with experimental content posting features, chat room improvements including message editing, member lists, and customizable icons for enhanced user experience.

• Frigate, an experimental Electrum server developed by Sparrow Wallet's Craig Raw, releases version 1.2.0, introducing GPU acceleration for Silent Payments scanning, delivering over 10x performance improvement and making public Silent Payments servers practically viable.

• Leopoldo López, former mayor of Caracas and Venezuelan opposition leader in exile, announces Democratic Decentralized Resistance, an event scheduled to take place on November 12 in Berlin, Germany to promote open technology and digital freedom.

• OP_RETURN Attack Surface Demo showcases how Bitcoin's OP_RETURN feature transforms blockchain storage into a public gallery for arbitrary data, enabling instant content access through standard APIs and creating expanded attack surfaces compared to obfuscated storage methods.

• BitcoinLatte aims to connect Bitcoiners with Bitcoin-friendly coffee shops worldwide.

• Proton launches a Data Breach Observatory, revealing 794 verified breaches exposing 300M records in 2025, with retail sector and small businesses most targeted by cybercriminals trading stolen data on dark web.

• Nostrdm is a lightweight CLI application that enables end-to-end encrypted private messaging over the Nostr protocol without servers or phone numbers.

• Noderunners collects Bitcoin content including podcasts, videos, documentaries and tutorials for community learning and engagement.

• Breez launches an open-source MCP server integrating Lightning Network functionality through Breez SDK Spark implementation, enabling AI agents to manage bitcoin payments, invoices, and wallet operations via the FastMCP protocol.

• Btrust, a non-profit organization decentralizing Bitcoin development in Africa and the Global South, launches the Pull Partnership program to place talented developers with top global Bitcoin teams, overcoming visa barriers and fostering international collaboration.

• Bitcoin Postcards enables users to send physical memories using Lightning payments, with postcards printed and shipped from the US within two business days while maintaining privacy through automatic data deletion within 90 days.

• Hodlbod launches Replicatr, a daemon that automatically syncs Nostr user content across relays using negentropy and the outbox model for improved decentralized social media reliability.

• Aegis, now a cross-platform Nostr signer app, launches version 0.3 with local relay setup functionality across iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows.

• Fedi, the Bitcoin company building Chaumian e-cash solutions, launches multi-signature guardian feature enabling easy creation of federated Bitcoin e-cash mints through the G-bot chatbot interface.

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• Jordi Visser of 22V Research, in an interview with Anthony Pompliano, compares Bitcoin's sideways price action this year to a 'silent IPO,' suggesting that BTC is entering a maturation phase where early whales take profits while institutions quietly accumulate (Nov 2 | 3:29 min watch). 

• Brad Mills, a Bitcoin VC, surprises trick-or-treaters on Halloween with $100 Bitcoin cards hidden in candy, capturing their excitement as they recognize what they've just received (Nov 1 | 1:28 min watch). 

• Allen Farrington of Axiom, in an appearance on the Bitcoin Archive podcast, argues that fiat currency systems inherently favor capital over labor by giving capitalists access to cheap money while forcing workers into a cycle of rent-paying and asset monetization, and proposes that Bitcoin could restore balance by ending financialization and enabling proper price discovery (Nov 1 | 32:27 min watch).

• Bitcoin Straight Up explains how Bitcoin's security relies on 4 pillars: energy costs, distributed nodes, an unbribable minority, and medium of exchange usage, and how custodial solutions like ETFs and stablecoins threaten this security by concentrating Bitcoin and undermining its monetary function (Oct 29 | 18:50 min watch). 

• Forrest HODL of Bitcoin Not Crypto argues that whether the CIA created Bitcoin is irrelevant, as Bitcoin's open, permissionless network cannot be controlled by any single entity, making its decentralized properties more important than its mysterious origins (Oct 28 | 14:23 min watch). 

• Unbanked, a documentary that explores Bitcoin as 'freedom money' that could revolutionize global finance, particularly for the unbanked population, is now available on Apple TV, Amazon Prime and Google TV (Oct 31 | 2:11 min watch). 

• BTC Sessions, maker of Bitcoin-related tutorials, warns about a potential Bitcoin chain split from BIP 444 proposal and explains how to protect your BTC from replay attacks using lessons from the 2017 Bitcoin Cash fork (Nov 1 | 20:48 min watch). 

• Adam Livingston, in a collaboration video with Swan Bitcoin, argues that Bitcoin's unique properties as pristine collateral will revolutionize the $40 trillion insurance industry by eliminating fiat currency risks, enabling trustless smart contracts, and providing a superior foundation for risk management that could eventually replace traditional insurance models entirely (Ot 29 | 10:46 min watch). 

• Matt Cole, CEO of asset-management firm Strive Inc, in an appearance on Bloomberg, argues that bitcoin offers a solution to debt crises as his company transitions into a Bitcoin treasury company following the balance-sheet strategy pioneered by Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy (Oct 30 | 1:20 min watch). 

• Horizon, a Bitcoin-based financial services company in the US, briefly explains how their users can convert home equity into bitcoin without debt (Oct 27 | 0:18 min watch). 

• Alex Bergeron of Ark Labs demonstrates a transaction made on the Arkade wallet that involves converting sats on Lightning to USDC on a sh!tcoin network within 30 seconds using the Lendaswap service (Oct 28 | 0:34 min watch). 

• Keychat, a Nostr-based chat app with a focus on privacy and censorship resistance, releases a five-minute overview video explaining the platform's overall design architecture (Nov 1 | 5:13 min watch). 

• El The Freedom Fairy, an Australian Bitcoin maximalist and host of Women in Bitcoin Sydney, conducts street interviews in Martin Place, Sydney, revealing widespread Bitcoin ignorance and apprehension among the public, demonstrating how early Bitcoin adoption remains while urging people to 'take the orange pill’ (Oct 27 | 8:01 min watch). 

• Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, says they have moved onto the 'next and final phase' for the digital euro (Oct 31 | 1:23 min watch). 

• Phil Rosen, Co-Founder of Opening Bell Daily, argues that while gold has outperformed bitcoin throughout this year, historical patterns of BTC's typical Q4 surge, averaging 59% gains since 2015, suggest that it is poised for a significant comeback (Nov 1 | 0:54 min watch). 

• Jack Mallers, CEO of Strike, in an appearance on the Daniela Cambone show, highlights Bitcoin's impact on his lifestyle and time preference, while explaining that it's really impossible to value things if there's an infinite amount of dollars (Oct 25 | 2:19 min watch). 

• Hector Alvero, COO of Rhino Bitcoin, explains that Strategy’s junk status rating by S&P highlights show early we are in terms of Bitcoin adoption despite growing institutional interest (Oct 31 | 1:28 min watch). 

• Walker America, host of 'THE Bitcoin podcast', demonstrates practical Bitcoin adoption by spending BTC at Lugano Plan B on beverages and merchandise (Oct 30 | 2:52 min watch). 

• Nik Bhatia of The Bitcoin Layer analyzes repo market stress, the Fed's upcoming end to quantitative tightening, and implications for Bitcoin, highlighting tight repo conditions, declining reserves necessitating future 'not-QE QE,' and mixed signals from labor market weakness amid dollar strength (Nov 1 | 20:14 min watch). 

• Forrest HODL also explains Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment mechanism, which automatically regulates mining difficulty every 2016 blocks to maintain 10-minute block times, creating programmed scarcity that fundamentally distinguishes Bitcoin from traditional commodities like gold through predictable, algorithmic supply and issuance (Oct 29 | 18:19 min watch). 

• Max Guise, Head of Bitcoin Products at Block, in an interview with Rob Wallace of Bitcoin News, talks about his company's Proto mining rig with custom ASIC chips that aims to decentralize Bitcoin mining, focusing on durability, heat reuse applications, and powering off-grid communities through sustainable energy solutions (Nov 1 | 8:33 min watch). 

• My Favorite Thing About Bitcoin explains that Bitcoin doesn't behave like gold yet because it's only 16 years old compared to gold's 5,000-year history as a store of value, but Bitcoin possesses superior monetary properties and is still in its early monetization phase with massive growth potential (Oct 29 | 25:13 min watch). 

• Mark Moss of Market Disruptors explains how Bitcoin as 'digital capital' is creating a new digital credit system that could disrupt Wall Street's $300T bond market by offering higher yields and reducing reliance on debt-based monetary systems (Oct 28 | 17:17 min watch). 

• Michael Saylor, in a clip from Strategy's Q3 2025 Earnings Call, outlines Strategy's long-term Bitcoin strategy, emphasizing disciplined capital management, a minimum 4-year investment horizon, and the ambitious vision to create a revolutionary digital credit market worth trillions while maintaining a bulletproof balance sheet (Nov 1 | 12:11 min watch). 

• Mark Moss of Market Disruptors explains a historical pattern where doubling gold prices signals empire collapses and massive wealth transfers, citing examples from Rome to the modern US, arguing that gold's recent doubling indicates an imminent collapse of the current dollar-based system (Oct 31 | 22:33 min watch). 

• Frank Corva of Bitcoin Magazine reports on Samourai wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez receiving a 60-month prison sentence, 3 years supervision, and a $250K fine, while detailing statements made by Keonne and the judge in the courtroom (Nov 6 | 7:44 min watch). 

• Erik Cason, author of Cryptosovereignty, in an appearance on the What Bitcoin Did podcast, argues that distinguishing between Bitcoin and crypto is essential as fiat currency's deterioration threatens to push society toward fascism or communism over the next 5 years (Nov 6 | 1:06 min watch). 

• Donald Trump, speaking at the America Business Forum, states that crypto 'takes a lot of pressure off the dollar' while reemphasizing plans to make America the 'Bitcoin superpower' and 'crypto capital of the world' (Nov 6 | 1:28 min watch). 

• Carla, creator of Bitcoin-based skits, reshares a video posted on November 5th paying tribute to the movie 'V For Vendetta' with a Bitcoin twist (Nov 5 | 2:06 min watch). 

• My Favorite Thing About Bitcoin warns viewers that Zcash's recent price surge appears to be a manufactured pump and dump scheme orchestrated by insiders with conflicts of interest, rather than an organic comeback driven by privacy concerns (Oct 31 | 12:28 min watch). 

• Adam Livingston, in a collaboration video with Swan Bitcoin, analyzes how Strategy's expansion of Bitcoin-backed credit instruments to European and Canadian bond markets could trigger a massive Bitcoin supply shock, as even small capital shifts from the $30.8 trillion bond market could dramatically increase Bitcoin demand and price (Nov 3 | 11:14 min watch). 

• Michael Saylor, in an appearance on CNBC, claims that $STRC delivers 10% tax-free dividends with a tax-equivalent yield of 16-20%, positioning Bitcoin treasury companies as the world's most tax-efficient fixed income generators (Oct 30 | 1:19 min watch).

• Jeff Park, CIO of ProCap BTC, in an interview with Anthony Pompliano, warns that younger generations might avoid Bitcoin adoption because they perceive it as insufficiently volatile or exciting, fearing they may completely opt out if Bitcoin becomes viewed as an older generation's investment (Nov 6 | 4:13 min watch). 

• Cynthia Lummis, Senator of Wyoming, in an appearance on Bloomberg, declares a US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve as the sole solution to address America's national debt while praising the Trump administration for embracing the initiative (Nov 5 | 1:02 min watch). 

• Forrest Hodl of Bitcoin Not Crypto explains how to use the crypto fear and greed index as a tool for building conviction and identifying buying opportunities, emphasizing Warren Buffett's strategy of being fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful (Nov 6 | 18:17 min watch). 

• Conner Brown, Head of Strategy at Bitcoin Policy Institute and former counsel for Senator Lummis, in an interview with TFTC's Marty Bent, reveals how Trump's announcement transformed the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Act from a legislative idea into a global moment, with uncertainty about presidential support lasting until Trump took the stage at the Bitcoin conference (Nov 5 | 5:28 min watch). 

• Max Guise, Bitkey Lead, explains how Bitkey is the first multi-sig wallet utilizing Chain Code Delegation to deliver both recovery and security features without compromising user privacy, eliminating the traditional trade-off between safety and confidentiality (Nov 6 | 0:43 min watch). 

• Rick Wurster, CEO of Charles Schwab, in an appearance on CNBC, says his company plans to launch Bitcoin trading in 2026, citing their clients' growing interest in the space as motivation for the expansion (Nov 6 | 0:57 min watch).

• Jeff Park explains Strategy's recent credit rating given by S&P, highlighting that it's a great step forward for the industry, while explaining the challenges associated with assessing Bitcoin-based balance sheets (Nov 1 | 5:25 min watch). 

• Raoul Pal, CEO of Real Vision, explores whether bitcoin's traditional 4 year cycle has ended and speculates if BTC will continue appreciating through 2026 (Nov 3 | 2:26 min watch). 

• Eric Trump, son of President Donald Trump, claims the UAE and other countries are actively buying Bitcoin (Oct 27 | 1:12 min watch). 

• Presidio Bitcoin's PBJ podcast explores BIP-444, a controversial Bitcoin proposal to filter 'spam' data, its potential flaws, and the broader implications of Bitcoin forks, emphasizing the importance of self-custody and economic activity over consensus rule changes (Nov 4 | 7:31 min watch). 

• Simon Dixon, in an interview with What Is Money? Show's Robert Breedlove and Eric V Stacks, argues that real global power lies not with politicians but with centralized financial and corporate systems dominated by asset management giants like BlackRock, which influence governments, corporations, and the military-industrial complex (Nov 5 | 8:05 min watch).

• My Favorite Thing About Bitcoin also explains how Wall Street and mainstream media are finally acknowledging the 'debasement trade' - investors flocking to Bitcoin and gold as hedges against deliberate fiat currency erosion, validating what Bitcoiners have argued for years (Nov 3 | 13:29 min watch).