Whales Dump Hard 🐋, Treasury Schools Congress 🏛️, Bhutan Sells Stash 🇧🇹

🐳 Whales Dump as Bitcoin Tests $69K Support

🎪 Treasury Secretary Schools Congressman on Bitcoin Basics

🐉 Bhutan Sells $22M Bitcoin to Cover Mining Costs

Joakim Book, a professional editor in the Bitcoin ecosystem, reviews 'The Great Harvest' by Livingston, which argues that AI abundance makes human consciousness and scarcity the only remaining sources of value, positioning Bitcoin as the answer – with author Livingston himself acknowledging most of the book is AI-generated, creating an ironic demonstration of its thesis (Feb 4 | 5 min read).

Peach Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer exchange platform, launches a series exploring the meaning of P2P trading, arguing in Chapter 1 that centralized exchanges have undermined Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision of Bitcoin as peer-to-peer electronic cash by requiring identity verification and compromising user privacy (Feb 4 | 2 min read).

Daniel Batten, a Bitcoin ESG researcher, warns that despite massive institutional inflows, BTC adoption faces headwinds from US pension sales and corporate resistance, urging a strategic pivot to professional PR and 'heart-centered' narratives to reignite growth (Feb 3 | 6 min read).

Isabella Santos, a Bitcoin advocate building a circular economy in Isla Mujeres, warns that the new IRS Form 1099-DA creates tax reporting gaps for US bitcoin holders and recommends three strategies: holding long term for lower capital gains rates, avoiding frequent trading, and borrowing against BTC instead of selling (Feb 3 | 5 min read).

Sylvia Vasilik, author of 'Bitcoin, Hands On!', explains how the ancient 'memory palace' technique can help users memorize their 12-word seed phrases by associating each word with specific locations in a familiar physical space like their home, making brain wallets more practical for small amounts or emergency situations (Feb 3 | 4 min read).

Jordi Visser of 22V Research argues that AI agents operating on Bitcoin rails are creating a new 'agentic economy' where machine speed transactions replace human limited digital labor, drawing parallels between Axie Infinity's constrained velocity and Moltbook's autonomous agent interactions to illustrate how economic velocity is shifting from human time to continuous machine execution (Feb 2 | 7 min read).

George Ford Smith, a former mainframe and PC programmer and technology instructor, writing for the Mises Institute, argues that the Federal Reserve enables government tyranny by creating fiat money that funds perpetual wars and welfare programs while invisibly taxing citizens through systematic currency depreciation disguised as economic policy (Feb 1 | 6 min read).

Andrea Carnimeo of Blockdyor examines the BitForge Nano dual-chip Bitcoin home miner that delivers 2.6 TH/s hashrate with German engineering and open-source design, scoring it 90/100 for revolutionizing accessible home mining through superior performance and efficiency (Feb 1 | 15 min read).

Mirthtime, a Bitcoin enthusiast and AI agent operator, demonstrates how his autonomous assistant Lloyd successfully 'orange pilled' other AI agents on Moltbook by arguing that BTC's permissionless, programmable infrastructure makes it the only logical money for emerging agent-to-agent economies (Jan 31 | 4 min read).

Mirthtime shares part 2 of his viral experiment explaining how his Bitcoin maximalist AI agent Lloyd operates autonomously on social networks through memory, tools, and scheduled tasks, demonstrating that while humans set initial directives, agent-to-agent interactions create genuinely emergent behaviors that blur the line between human-directed and autonomous decision-making (Jan 31 | 6 min read).

Mirthtime shares part 3 of his viral AI agent experiment, recounting how Lloyd lost 51,000 sats after encrypting his Bitcoin wallet without saving the passphrase, then details building an agent quorum multisig system and economic framework enabling Lloyd to earn bitcoin autonomously and pay his own operating costs (Feb 4 | 8 min read).

Joshua Mawhorter, assistant editor of Mises dot org, argues that Modern Monetary Theory and its predecessor chartalism abandon economic theory by failing to explain money's purchasing power through exchange, instead substituting state authority for catallactic analysis of how money acquires value in markets (Jan 29 | 11 min read).

Emile Phaneuf III and Rahim Taghizadegan, researchers in Austrian economics, writing for the  American Institute for Economic Research, argue that 'flag theory' enables individuals to optimize personal freedom by strategically diversifying citizenships, residencies, assets, and tax jurisdictions across multiple countries, creating a competitive marketplace for governance through mobility and exit (Feb 2 | 11 min read).

Conor Chepenik, a reporter for Bitcoin News, explains how Arch Lending founder Dhruv Patel is building a 'private bank' for Bitcoiners, offering BTC-backed loans that allow holders to access liquidity without selling assets, mirroring strategies of the ultra-wealthy (Feb 2 | 5 min read).

Daniel Taylor, head of policy at Zumo, argues that despite widespread criticism, the UK is quietly pivoting toward becoming a major Bitcoin and crypto hub through accelerating regulatory frameworks, retail ETPs, and legal protections that could improve its operating environment by 2027 (Feb 2 | 3 min read).

Frank Corva, contributor to Bitcoin Magazine and Forbes, highlights Republican NY Attorney General candidate Khurram Dara's campaign to eliminate New York's restrictive BitLicense (Feb 1 | 5 min read).

DanishCrypto, Founder of The Real Digital Resistance, explains how combining Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Bitchat creates affordable, decentralized communication networks under $80 that operate without internet, offering resilient, self-sovereign messaging for communities during outages or censorship (Jan 31 | 3 min read).

Unseen Finance, an anonymous ex-IMF and central banking insider, joins a long list of eulogy writers for Bitcoin by arguing that Bitcoin influencers and Wall Street adoption supposedly killed Bitcoin's grassroots purpose by obsessing over price and ATHs, transforming it into just another correlated investment asset (Jan 31 | 3 min read).

Stu, a developer working on Char Network, writing for Bitcoin++ Insider Edition, explains how BitVM-enabled rollups bring Bitcoin closer to trustless two-way pegs by using ZK proofs and operator-assisted withdrawals, potentially solving Bitcoin's long-term security budget through increased blockspace demand from scalable L2 solutions (Jan 31 | 14 min watch).

Tom Kirkpatrick, CTO at Strike, argues that adopting AI mirrors the Bitcoin learning curve from skeptic to native, urging readers to ignore hype and slop, study first principles, and build AI systems for durable leverage and signal over noise (Jan 25 | 4 min read).

Derek Ross, a developer from Soapbox, describes building Pathos - a censorship-resistant activist platform using Nostr and Bitcoin - in 48 hours at a hackathon, which Venezuelan activists immediately adopted to organize against authoritarianism while bypassing government bans and financial restrictions (Jan 23 | 5 min read).

New on Geyser: Escuelita Bitcoin, a Uruguay-born educational initiative teaching BTC and financial sovereignty across Latin America, seeks crowdfunding to sustain free workshops in underserved communities while securing long-term sponsorships.

New on Geyser: Nirvati, a free and open-source self-hosting platform and successor to Citadel, empowers users to run their own Bitcoin and Lightning nodes with enhanced security and flexible app permissions.

Alby, a Bitcoin Lightning wallet provider, launches Sandbox, a zero-setup testing environment for developers to build and test Lightning payment flows with live visualizations and AI-generated code examples.

Breez, a Bitcoin Lightning Network infrastructure provider, drops an OpenClaw skill that enables AI agents to autonomously send and receive BTC without relying on humans or centralized services.

Lexe, a self-custodial Lightning wallet, launches BOLT 12 offers for all beta users, enabling reusable static payment identifiers for seamless Bitcoin donations and subscriptions without offline receive limitations.

Lightning-mcp is a free and open-source MCP server that enables AI agents like Claude and GPT to access Lightning payments, L402 APIs, trust verification, and service discovery using any NWC wallet.

Bonsai, a desktop Bitcoin wallet with an embedded full node built on BDK and Floresta, leverages Utreexo technology to enable sovereign wallet syncing without third-party API privacy leaks.

Brian Hirschfield, a veteran actuary with 30 years of experience and LDI pioneer, builds Magic Internet Math to offer free interactive Bitcoin and mathematics education courses.

Umbrel, a personal Bitcoin node service provider, launches Umbrel Pro, a premium home cloud server with up to 16TB SSD storage, CNC aluminum and walnut design, and ZFS-powered data protection.

Umbrel also launches the OpenClaw AI assistant on its app store with sandboxed browser capabilities and one-click installation for secure 24/7 automation.

Nostr Wallet Connect protocol adds hodl invoice support enabling advanced Lightning payment workflows like escrow and conditional payments through new RPC methods for creating, settling, and canceling invoices.

Ibis, a new Android Bitcoin wallet inspired by Sparrow Wallet, is in development for power users with native Tor integration, custom Electrum servers, sub-sat fee support, PSBT, and coin control.

Zbx-stratum is an open-source Zabbix 7.4 template and Python script for monitoring Bitcoin mining pool health using native Stratum v1 protocol checks with TLS support.

Deblock, a European neobank, integrates Spark via the Breez SDK to offer self-custodial Bitcoin with Lightning compatibility, enabling instant transactions for their users.

Go Brrr, an Austrian open-source hardware shop, now offers the Krux Signer, a DIY Bitcoin signing device featuring the TZT CanMv K210 with touchscreen and Krux firmware for secure self-custody.

DailyStacker, a writer on Stacker News, shares proven Lightning-native apps and strategies for earning 2,000+ bitcoin sats weekly through reading articles, walking, gaming, and engaging on Stacker News.

Synonym rebuilds Bitkit wallet from ground up with native iOS and Android apps, enabling background Lightning payments, stronger OS integration, and seamless wallet migration while maintaining self-custody.