Bitcoiner • Founder @BitcoinMtaani • @BitcoinMatatuKE now Stealth
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Bitcoin reached $2 trillion before anyone offered a credible way to hold it. That is the strongest evidence of product-market fit in finance, and the main reason most people still call it speculative.
Holders have historically had two options. Self-custody makes you the last line of defense against device failure, supply-chain compromise, lost backups, and physical attacks. Third-party custody puts it all on one company, and the record runs from Mt. Gox to FTX. Last week’s Ledger incident showed again what a single point of failure costs.
Multi-Institution Custody removes it: a segregated vault secured by three independent institutions, so no one device, person, or company can lose your bitcoin.
@MTanguma on the third way.
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Not your keys, not your coins. The right to self-custody is a hallmark of Bitcoin and blockchain technology and a principle that I believe in 100%.
The @CFTC is committed to protecting the rights of blockchain users and software developers, while also protecting customers’ assets when they choose to rely upon a trusted party to custody or exchange their assets.
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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 CFTC proposes rules to regulate U.S. crypto markets.
"Today’s action is just the beginning...America can lead the next generation of financial technology without repeating the mistakes of the last one." 👏
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Inside Bitget's $388M Hack: How the Attackers Got In xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1dGYlaOYY…
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🚨 Bitget crypto exchange confirms $351.6m stolen in a major hack.
Interesting timing.
Just 7 days ago Bitget published Proof of Reserves showing a 135% reserve ratio.
They say the hack only affected hot/warm wallets, cold storage is secure and their $464m Protection Fund is sufficient to cover the entire loss.
Withdrawals are currently suspended.
So now we get a real-time stress test of Proof of Reserves + their Protection Fund.
Bitcoin wasn’t hacked.
A custodian was hacked.
Let’s see whether Bitget’s reserves and Protection Fund perform as advertised.
Masterguantai retweeted
最新的进展同步一下：我们正在与独立第三方专家 @Mandiant 和 @SlowMist_Team 合作，对此次事件进行全面调查。
其他几点都是说过的，我再强调一下：
-我们的首要任务是保障用户。用户余额保持完整，Bitget 用户保护基金将覆盖此次平台层面事件造成的影响。
-Bitget Wallet 为自托管钱包，运行于与 Bitget Exchange 完全分离且独立的基础设施之上，未受此次事件影响。
-Bitget Exchange 平台的充值交易奖励等功能都继续正常运行。在我们完成额外安全核查期间，提币功能暂时暂停；待我们确认可以安全恢复后，将尽快恢复提币。
-我们明白在此类事件发生时，用户希望尽快获得答复。我们将通过Bitget官方渠道及时发布最新进展。请关注我的和@bitget @xiejiayinBitget 的 X账号以及Bitget官方公告。
[UPDATES] We are currently working with independent third-party experts Mandiant and SlowMist for a full investigation.
Our first priority is our users. User balances remain intact, and Bitget's User Protection Fund covers the impact on this platform-wide incident.
Bitget Wallet operates as a self-custodial wallet on a completely separate and independent infrastructure from Bitget Exchange and was not affected by this incident.
Bitget Wallet users' assets remain onchain under users' control and remain unaffected.
The Bitget Exchange platform continues to operate normally.
Withdrawals are still temporarily paused while we complete additional security checks, and we will restore them as soon as we are confident that it is safe to do so.
We know that during an incident like this, users want answers quickly. We will provide timely updates through Bitget's official channels.
Masterguantai retweeted
lightning on x402
Block has joined the x402 Foundation, an open standard for agentic payments, to help build the rails that will let people, businesses, and agents pay and get paid.
We’ve also contributed Bitcoin Lightning payments, which is purpose-built for the instant, low-cost, high-volume payments that agentic commerce will depend on.
More here: block.xyz/inside/block-joins…
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Catena has received preliminary conditional OCC approval to establish a national trust bank.
We're building a trust bank for businesses whose AI agents use money, pairing programmable controls with custody and fiduciary responsibility.
catena.com/blog/catena-recei…
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With CLARITY stalled, I expect the SEC, CFTC, and Treasury to advance rules under existing law, banks to expand Bitcoin custody and loans against it, and more capital to favor Bitcoin and digital credit. GENIUS supports stablecoin adoption. Progress need not wait for Congress.
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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC Chairman Paul Atkins says "We will act decisively within the SEC’s statutory authority to deliver certainty for American investors and for the entrepreneurs shaping our technological future." 👀
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Everyone is actively working to resolve this and we'll share information as the situation develops. As a @Liquid_BTC wallet, Liquid functionality in @AquaBitcoin is impacted, but Bitcoin transactions will still work normally.
These are difficult times but we'll pull through. 🙏
We are aware of a security incident on @Liquid_BTC. Purported white-hat hackers have withdrawn ~4,000 BTC (~$320 million) from the Liquid Federation wallet. The @Blockstream team is working on contacting them on-chain with a signed message.
What we know so far is that the funds were withdrawn via the SideSwap PAK (Peg-out Authorization Key), but that key was not compromised, nor were any others.
Exchanges have been notified and have already paused (or will pause) LBTC deposits and withdrawals. Other Liquid assets such as USDT, DePix, and RWAs are unaffected by this security incident.
Bridge nodes have been temporarily disabled, so no new transactions can be submitted to the network. Effectively, the Liquid sidechain is paused until this issue is resolved.
Liquid wallets will be impacted, and we're sorry for any inconvenience. Federation members are actively working on resolving this so we can restore normal network activity.
You can monitor the situation via @mempool's liquid.network site below:
mempool.space/address/bc1qdl…
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The recent Coldcard incident isn’t just a hardware wallet story.
It is a reminder that protecting your Bitcoin requires just as much thought and planning as acquiring it.
(When it comes to the acquiring part of the equation, we prefer mining it, but that’s a story for another day.)
In this episode of Hosting Bitcoin, @BeccaAmilee of @AnchorWatch joins Beau Turner to discuss the biggest risks Bitcoin holders face and how to think more critically about custody.
We also discuss our newly launched partnership!
Through this partnership, Abundant Mines clients and community receive preferred pricing and exclusive incentives on AnchorWatch's Bitcoin custody platform, along with access to optional insurance. (Preferred pricing code mentioned in the episode 👀)
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:10 Becca's Bitcoin Journey
14:47 Bitcoin Custody Explained
26:03 Social Engineering & Security Risks
45:08 AnchorWatch & Abundant Mines Partnership
Watch the full conversation 👇
Masterguantai retweeted
Nothing about this has to be decided this week.
You can move your Bitcoin into a Multi-Institution Custody Vault now and decide the rest later. Free for your first 60 days, and cancelling costs nothing.
That is the point of the 60 days.
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Announcing the new L402 site! l402.tech
With L402, agents can pay with bitcoin and natively authenticate. No accounts, no intermediaries, no humans involved. Instant, high volume, low fee. The protocol for machine-to-machine commerce on Lightning.
Start building the AI economy today. 🤖⚡
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we're launching BUZZ!
a new groupchat platform for teams of people and agents of all sizes, built to reduce our dependency on slack and github. model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source. 🐝
buzz.xyz
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It was great to go on The Telegraph Ukraine: the latest podcast. Check out my interview here: youtu.be/r8TQnqmuUMI?si=l5A-…
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on what customers actually want, the real business of frontier labs, and the importance of open source models:
“What the technical customers want is control over their compute, their models, their data stack, and their alpha. They want to know they own the means of production, and it's not being transferred to someone else.”
"Who owns the data? Are the prompts secure? Is this being transferred to you?"
"If it was so valuable, and I can make you a billion dollars, wouldn't I say I'll make you a billion dollars and I want 30%? Why are they charging for tokens if it's so valuable?"
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Bitcoin Rails x MARA Foundation presents:
THE POLITICS OF POST-QUANTUM BITCOIN | with Nic Carter
🔗 YouTube: youtu.be/3ByUtLGSAqM
🌿Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/28h…
Less than nine months ago, investor and researcher
@nic_carter sparked one of the most heated debates in Bitcoin's recent history — when he published a series of essays arguing that the network should prepare for its post-quantum transition sooner rather than later.
While the essays broadly persuaded investors and institutions, many of Bitcoin's technical leaders dismissed them as alarmist — that is, until Google's quantum resource estimates were updated just a few months later.
Crediting Google's paper with "shifting the Overton Window" on quantum and strengthening the case for post-quantum preparation, Nic shares his thoughts on the delicate politics surrounding this transition — and how he believes a quantum attack and response could potentially play out in practice.
In more detail, this special episode of Bitcoin Rails X MARA Foundation TV covers:
- How a quantum attack could realistically unfold + the different ways stakeholder groups might respond
- The constitutional tensions surfaced by quantum vulnerable coins and how incentives will ultimately dictate outcomes
- How a state actor could facilitate "benevolent" quantum recovery and eliminate the need for a contentious fork - The role and influence of institutional investors as key players in quantum outcomes
- How Bitcoin's post-quantum transition could permanently reshape Bitcoin’s governance structures ...or build them from the ground up
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 — Intro
00:18 — Nick's path from Fidelity to founding Castle Island
07:00 — How quantum went from FUD to Nick's biggest concern
12:45 — Why Core devs refuse to be accountable
26:09 — Investors vs developers: who took quantum seriously first
32:33 — Bitcoin's "pre-constitutional" governance problem
39:18 — Satoshi's coins: liquidate, burn, slow-bleed, or let the government take them
47:36 — Why there will never be another Bitcoin fork war
01:01:35 — Bitcoin is about to choose the wrong signature scheme
01:09:42 — The actual deadline: why PQ signatures need to ship in 2026
01:13:09 — The happy path, the coup, and why Bitcoin won't die