THIS IS HUGE FOR BITCOIN Someone just bought a... $4.2 million home using Bitcoin as collateral... without selling any Bitcoin. And it was backed by Fannie Mae. While the timeline obsesses over short-term price action, Bitcoin is quietly moving from “store of value” into real collateral inside the $50 trillion US housing market.show more

This was all streamed from Bitcoin using Ordinals. The... 3D world supports real-time multiplayer interactions, and decentralized land ownership. All this is on-chain on Bitcoin, and as immutable and secure as Bitcoin itself. The weather in the world reacts to Bitcoin fees, clouds are linked to transaction volume, and time in the world is determined by block height. Makes sense for a Bitcoin world. Real-time multiplayer interactions is one of the newest features. This is particularly difficult to do because Bitcoin block times are ~10 minutes. Bitcoin has been around for 17 years, and we're now seeing fascinating new things being built on top of it.show more

ERIC TRUMP: “JPMORGAN WAS CRAPPING ALL OVER BITCOIN -... NOW THEY’RE SWIMMING WITH THE TIDE.” JPMorgan is now accepting $BTC related assets as collateral for mortgages and lending products. The world’s biggest bank keeps moving deeper into crypto.show more

BREAKING: 🇷🇺 RUSSIA CENTRAL BANK JUST APPROVED #BITCOIN AND... CRYPTO AS MARGIN COLLATERAL FOR FUTURES AND DERIVATIVES BTC CAN NOW BE USED TO BACK LEVERAGED TRADING AND SHORT SELLING GLOBAL SUPERPOWERS ARE RACING TO BTC THE RACE IS ON 🚀show more

🚨 MICHAEL SAYLOR JUST GAVE HIS BITCOIN PRICE TARGET... FOR END OF YEAR: "Our expectation right now is end of the year. It should be about $150,000." Bitcoin is currently trading around $59k That is a +150% move from here by December. Saylor holds over 850K Bitcoin on Strategy's balance sheet. He is not a disinterested observer. But he has also been more right than wrong on Bitcoin price direction for MANY years.show more

🇺🇸 RICH DAD POOR DAD AUTHOR ROBERT KIYOSAKI ROTATED... INTO BITCOIN About 11 months ago, Kiyosaki increased his Bitcoin exposure by trading long-held silver for $BTC. He still holds gold and silver ; but the signal is clear: Bitcoin is absorbing value from traditional hard assets as fiat continues to weaken. Finite supply. Real money. Bitcoin keeps winning. 🚀show more

The main reason people are losing their minds over... Michael Saylor is simple: Bitcoin is in a bear market, and everyone wants someone to blame. Even in 2020, he acknowledged that selling can make sense for something essential or deeply meaningful. $MSTR also sold Bitcoin for tax-loss harvesting in 2022. His point was never that no satoshi could ever be sold under any circumstances. It was that selling Bitcoin just to hold another financial asset is stupid. Every downturn needs a scapegoat.show more

🚨 BITCOIN JUST TOUCHED THE ONE LEVEL THAT HAS... ENDED EVERY BEAR MARKET. It is not a moving average. It is the cost to produce a Bitcoin. Right now that sits near $64,000. Every time price falls to this line, it bounces. The reason is simple. Miners stop selling below their own cost. Supply dries up exactly where price is now. That is how the floor forms. We are standing on it.show more

🔥STRATEGY WILL BE THE WORLD'S MOST VALUABLE COMPANY🔥 Strategy... bought OVER 56,000 Bitcoin in April. That number is so absurd people are psychologically incapable of processing it. Post-halving miners produce roughly 13,500 BTC per month. Strategy just bought about 4.1x an entire month of new miner supply in one month. Now run the simple monster math: Today: Strategy BTC stack: 818,334 BTC Bitcoin price: $76,196 Bitcoin NAV: $62.35B Assume Strategy keeps buying 56,000 BTC per month for 5 years. That is: ASSUMING STRC GROWTH TOTALLY STOPS (LOL) ~672,000 BTC per year ~3,360,000 BTC over 5 years Their stack goes from: 818,334 BTC to 4,178,334 BTC Now assume Bitcoin compounds at 25% CAGR. Bitcoin goes from: $76,196 to roughly: $232,532 So the Bitcoin NAV becomes: 4,178,334 BTC × $232,532 = roughly $971.5 BILLION Almost $1 TRILLION in Bitcoin NAV. And the funniest part? This model assumes no mNAV expansion. No premium insanity. No additional acceleration. No credit flywheel getting stronger. No market panic as everyone realizes Strategy is vacuuming Bitcoin off the planet like a publicly traded monetary black hole. Just: 56,000 BTC per month. 25% Bitcoin CAGR. 5 years. That’s it. Don't think they can accumulate that much Bitcoin at that low of a CAGR? Think the Bitcoin CAGR has to go higher? Cool. That only helps Strategy buy more Bitcoin. The bear case is basically: “Sure, they are absorbing multiples of new supply, building the largest corporate Bitcoin balance sheet in history, converting fiat capital markets into Bitcoin ownership, and compounding NAV at escape velocity, but have you considered that I am emotionally upset?” MSTR is becoming the most aggressive Bitcoin accumulation machine ever built. The fiat world is still modeling it like a tech stock with a weird treasury policy. GOOD LUCK.show more

Sold 32 coins. Bought 1,550. 48 times more, at... a 15% discount, into the crash the market blamed on the sale. Strategy disclosed today that while everyone panicked over its $2.5 million Bitcoin sale, it was quietly buying the dip that panic created. 1,550 Bitcoin for $101 million, at $65,332 a coin, far below the $77,135 it sold for and below its own cost basis. The bears called the sale the first crack, a forced liquidation, the start of the death spiral. The answer was a buy 48 times the size of the sale that scared them. This is the machine we described: a state-contingent allocator. Above its funding line, it turns market access into Bitcoin. The sale was the exception. The buy is the rule. It also closed the question the sale opened. The cash reserve behind the preferred dividends had thinned to $900 million, about six months of cover. He rebuilt it to $1 billion in the same week. But watch how, because that is the real story. He funded none of it with coins. He funded it with $181 million of freshly issued stock, then spent it on Bitcoin and the reserve. The coins were never the funding source. The equity is. That is the flywheel working exactly as built, and the cost of it surfacing at the same time. Every turn now runs on issuing shares, and the premium that once made each share buy more Bitcoin than it diluted has compressed hard. He bought low. He sold his own stock low to do it. So the question quietly turns. It was never whether Saylor sells his Bitcoin. He just proved again that he buys far more than he sells. It is what each turn of the engine now costs in dilution, and how long the market keeps paying a premium worth that cost. He bought the dip. The dip was partly his own making. And he paid for it in equity, not coins.show more

Did you know staking CORE can boost what your... Bitcoin earns? Bitcoin holders can earn CORE rewards on Core DAO 🔶 by timelocking coins, locking them on the Bitcoin network for a set period without giving up custody. The rate those coins earn is not fixed. Dual Staking sorts Bitcoin stakers into four tiers. Staking $CORE alongside the Bitcoin lifts a user into one of three boosted levels, while Bitcoin-only stakers sit at the base rate. The deciding factor is the ratio of CORE staked to Bitcoin staked. Per Core's documentation, those ratios and the tier count are not permanent; both can change by a governance vote, and the requirements have shifted before.show more

32 coins. $2.5 million. 0.0038% of the stack. That... is the sale the market is now blaming for a $3 billion liquidation cascade and a Bitcoin price nearly halved from its peak. A $2.5 million sale cannot move a trillion-dollar asset. It is a rounding error. In the same week, Strategy raised $128.3 million selling its own stock, 50 times larger. It did not need to sell coins. It chose to. The crash has real drivers: a record 13-day run of ETF outflows, a rotation into AI, a Fed in no hurry to cut. But the accelerant the market keeps naming is 32 coins. The coins were never the point. The signal was. And the signal was deliberate. Michael Saylor told the Q1 call he would “probably sell some bitcoin to pay a dividend just to inoculate the market and send the message that we did it.” His logic was sound: prove the Bitcoin is usable capital, not a vault that can never be opened, and show he is not a prisoner of his own vow. His “never sell” always meant be a net accumulator. He is up more than 170,000 coins this year against the 32 he sold, and he scores himself on one number, Bitcoin per share. By that math, defending the dividend with a sliver was discipline, not distress. The market read it as the opposite. The dose became the catalyst now blamed for the crash. The inoculation became the infection. Because what changed was never Strategy’s solvency. It was its identity. The market has stopped pricing a permanent holder and started pricing what the filings always described: a state-contingent allocator now funding its own preferred dividends, at the margin, from the Bitcoin beneath them. And the buffer is thinning. The cash reserve behind those dividends has fallen from $2.25 billion to $900 million. Against a preferred bill near $1.7 billion a year, that is roughly 6 months of runway. Be precise. This is not a death spiral. Strategy still holds 843,706 Bitcoin, worth more than $50 billion even now, and has more funding levers than almost any company alive. A real rally makes this a footnote, and the sell-side calling the reaction overdone is not wrong on the fundamentals. But the regime has changed. The question is no longer Bitcoin’s price on any given day. It is the cadence of the dividend declarations and the path of that reserve. Bitcoin did not acquire a yield. The wrapper acquired liabilities. This week the market learned that difference costs far more than 32 coins.show more

THE REAL REASON BITCOIN JUST PUMPED TO $69,700 (and... will keep pumping) Everyone is staring at the green Bitcoin candle, but the move started somewhere else entirely, in the US Treasury bond market The Treasury just doubled its long-term bond buyback program old max: $2 billion per operation new max: at least $4 billion targets: the 10 to 20 and 20 to 30 year bonds runs from September 9 through November 4 In plain terms, the Treasury is stepping in to support the market for long-term government debt That matters because when Treasury yields fall, risk assets like Bitcoin get more attractive Right after the announcement the yields dropped 10 year: -6 bps to 4.647% 30 year: -9 bps to 5.196% Then Bitcoin ripped $65,400 at 10:45 AM -> $67,600 at 11:26 AM -> $69,700 at 11:27 AM It gained more than $2,000 in a single minute That candle trapped everyone shorting Bitcoin, their leveraged shorts got liquidated and the forced buying pushed price even higher $1.59 billion in crypto liquidations in 24 hours $746 million in Bitcoin shorts wiped out in that one minute candle The chain was simple Treasury expands buybacks -> long-term yields fall -> Bitcoin pumps -> shorts get liquidated -> forced buying sends it even higher One correction, this is not QE and the Fed did not turn on the printer The Treasury is just buying back existing bonds to add liquidity, and the size is still small next to how much debt the US issues But the timing is the tell, the bond market moved first and Bitcoin followed, then the short squeeze turned it into an explosion Everyone is showing you the candle, almost nobody is talking about what happened right before it September 9 is the date to watch nowshow more

Introducing Zest Protocol Stacks Vaults, Automated yield strategies for... Bitcoin-native finance. Launching alongside the stacks.btc Bitcoin Staking upgrade. Stacks Vaults mark the evolution of Zest Protocol from a lending market into yield infrastructure. Until now, earning optimised yield on Stacks meant actively managing positions across markets, moving collateral, monitoring rates, and rebalancing by hand. Stacks Vaults changes that: deposit a single asset, select a strategy, and the vault handles the mechanics in the background. This is the yield toolkit for Stacks. Every yield source in the ecosystem becomes a strategy that can be automated and offered as a single-deposit product. The first vault is a levered Bitcoin Staking vault, built around the liquid staking Bitcoin token Stacking DAO launches with the Stacks Bitcoin Staking upgrade. How the levered Bitcoin Staking vault works: 🟠 One deposit, one position. Deposit BTC, sBTC, or stBTC directly into the vault. You hold a single position while the strategy runs itself. 🟠 Automated leverage. The vault uses your stBTC as collateral to borrow sBTC, stakes the borrowed sBTC into stBTC, and repeats the process. Target yield: 6 to 8%, purely derived from Bitcoin Staking on Stacks. 🟠 Non-custodial. The vault contract can only execute strategy actions on Zest Protocol's lending markets. It cannot move funds anywhere else, and only the user can withdraw their position. No one, including Zest Protocol, can access vault assets. 🟠 Built on live lending markets. The vault runs on Zest Protocol's existing markets: two years in production, over a thousand liquidations processed without bad debt. 🟠 Continuous monitoring. Zest Protocol manages the strategy and monitors the position automatically. No manual rebalancing, no juggling markets. 🟠 First of many strategies. The stBTC looping vault is the first, not the last. STX-based strategies, stablecoin and credit-based strategies, and structured yield products can all be built on the same foundation. External curators will be able to manage their own strategies on Stacks Vaults. Lending markets were the foundation. Vaults are what gets built on top. Stacks Vaults launch alongside stBTC, right before Stacks Bitcoin Staking goes live. Note: Stacks Vaults are separate from Bitcoin Collateral Vaults, Zest Protocol's upcoming flagship product that allows users to borrow against native BTC on any chain (e.g. Ethereum). More updates on Bitcoin Collateral Vaults follow shortly. Follow Zest Protocol on X or subscribe to our newsletter to be notified when levered Bitcoin Staking goes live.show more

The current short term price swing came a bit... earlier than I expected, but it was right on cue. Funny how quickly people forget how volatile crypto is, lol. It's normal price action. 📽️ Clip from earlier today Full Video -> #Bitcoin #BTC $BTCshow more

Ray Dalio is right about one thing: Bitcoin forces... you to think harder. But zoom out. 1) “Bitcoin has no privacy.” Bitcoin is pseudonymous, not anonymous. That’s by design. Transparency is what makes it auditable, trust-minimized, and globally verifiable. Privacy isn’t binary — it’s a spectrum. Second-layer solutions like Lightning Network improve transactional privacy, and self-custody + best practices eliminate counterparty surveillance. If your definition of “privacy” is “opaque like the banking system,” then yes — Bitcoin is different. It replaces institutional secrecy with mathematical transparency. 2) “Central banks don’t want to buy Bitcoin.” Correct. Central banks also didn’t want the internet, stablecoins, or gold leaving their vaults. Bitcoin isn’t competing for central bank approval. It’s competing as neutral collateral in a world of weaponized fiat. When sovereign debt hits structural limits, assets without counterparty risk win. That’s why individuals, institutions, ETFs, and even nation-states accumulate it — regardless of central bank preferences. 3) “Quantum computing issues.” If quantum breaks Bitcoin’s cryptography, it breaks the entire global financial system first — SWIFT, online banking, military communications. Bitcoin can upgrade via consensus long before that scenario materializes. Cryptography evolves. That’s not a flaw; that’s software. 4) “Relatively small and controlled market.” Every monetization process starts small. Gold was once a niche commodity. The internet was once “small and controlled.” Bitcoin’s market cap reflects 15 years of monetization — with no CEO, no marketing budget, and no state backing. And “controlled”? Try censoring a decentralized network running across tens of thousands of nodes worldwide. Dalio views Bitcoin through a macro-hedge lens. But Bitcoin isn’t just an asset. It’s: •Programmatic scarcity (21M hard cap) •Final settlement without intermediaries •Borderless value transfer •A hedge against monetary debasement The real question isn’t whether central banks want Bitcoin. It’s whether individuals want money that can’t be inflated, frozen, or diluted. History suggests they do.show more

Get Ready for Satoshi Perpetual Exchange 📈 1/2 We’ve... acquired NLX ☢️ Trade with 50x, a Bitcoin-backed Perpetuals Exchange on Core DAO 🔶 , and it’s now becoming Satoshi Perpetual Exchange (Satoshi Perps)! 💥 What’s Next? - Beta launch this month. - Trade anything with 250X leverage using Bitcoin or Bitcoin derivatives. - Earn rewards in Bitcoin as a liquidity provider. This is just the first step in our mission to drive mass adoption of Web3. Stay tuned! 📚 For Details:show more

We’re thrilled to announce that Bitcoin is now finally... live on our cross-chain bridge, Router Nitro! Try it out: With this integration, you can now: - Swap any asset from the Ethereum chain to BTC on the Bitcoin network - Swap BTC from the Bitcoin network to WBTC on the Ethereum chain Experience unmatched speed and cost-efficiency—all in a fully decentralized, trustless way with no custodians involved! Getting started is simple: - You can use any EVM-compatible wallet when you’re going from Ethereum to Bitcoin - When going from Bitcoin to Ethereum, to have a smooth and easy experience you will need XDEFI wallet! Our roadmap includes adding more chains, wallets, and assets to support Bitcoin bridging. Besides, Router is developing a solution to enable users to seamlessly transfer BTC from Bitcoin to any token on other chains. In upcoming upgrades, users will be able to buy any token they want using Bitcoin. Bitcoin holds unmatched stability and liquidity in the crypto world and with this integration, Router Nitro empowers users, platforms, and developers to access Bitcoin’s liquidity across DeFi, dApps, and more—all while preserving Bitcoin’s core values. Embrace the power of BTC and start exploring Router Nitro’s new Bitcoin connectivity!show more

Bitcoin is "money bounded by energy." It takes real... power to mine BTC, anchoring its value in the physical world. $BTCN, Corn's gas token, is like a battery—storing this raw energy in a form optimized for DeFi—able to fuel the next era of Bitcoin innovation 🟠⚡🔋 (Read 🧵⬇️)show more

The thing no one noticed: There’s a pricing lag... between betting on Bitcoin and trading Bitcoin perps. That gap usually disappears once market makers close it. Until then, you can watch both markets side by side, see the dislocation in real time, and trade it. This is exactly the kind of edge most traders never even look for.show more

🚨 BREAKING: BINANCE, COINBASE AND BYBIT JUST STARTED BUYING... $BTC RIGHT AFTER THE US-IRAN DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT THEY ARE BUYING MILLIONS OF BITCOIN EVERY FEW MINUTES AND PUMPED PRICE TO $65,666 THIS IS EXTREMELY BULLISH FOR THE MARKET!!show more