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Bitcoin Core Developer: What truly made Bitcoin successful wasn't the white paper Summary: On July 28, 2026, Bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik Jeff Garzik stated on the Bitcoin Treasuries podcast that Bitcoin's initial ascent did not stem from its white paper, but rather benefited from the widespread exposure brought...

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Core, ‌the Bitcoin-first ‌chain, and how it’s trying to stretch BTC’s usefulness Core DAO (Core DAO 🔶) brands itself as “The Bitcoin Everything Chain.” The pitch is simple: take Bitcoin’s strengths and push them beyond the usual buy-and-hold story. The protocol centers on one main idea: BTC shouldn’t sit still. Core wants idle Bitcoin to earn, but without giving up the properties people care about most: safety, decentralization, and full self-custody. To get there, Core leans on a mix of Satoshi Plus, timelocks, and a quick Layer 1 EVM chain. Satoshi Plus folds in Delegated Proof of Work (so Bitcoin miners can participate), self-custodial Bitcoin staking, and staking of the $CORE token. Core frames the relationship with Bitcoin as mutualistic. It borrows security and incentive alignment from Bitcoin, then tries to send value back through extra miner rewards, trustless yield opportunities for BTC holders, and infrastructure that makes it easier for Bitcoin products to plug in and scale. Key ways Core aims to expand Bitcoin utility: 1.) Self-custodial Bitcoin staking Lock BTC with timelocks directly on the Bitcoin network (CLTV) and earn CORE yield, no wrapping, no bridges, and no handing custody to anyone else. 2.) Dual staking Stake $BTC and $CORE together to reach higher yield tiers. 3.) Tapping Bitcoin’s hash power Miners can delegate hash power to earn extra CORE rewards, while Core itself is secured using a majority share of Bitcoin’s hash rate. 4.) The “Bitcoin Power Grid” A set of rails Bitcoin products can connect to, built around yield, collateral, payments, and DeFi use cases. 5.) Scalable Bitcoin DeFi An EVM-compatible network designed for faster, cheaper BTCFi apps. 6.) Two-way value flow The goal is to strengthen Bitcoin’s security budget over time, while also turning dormant BTC into something that can actively do work. In plain terms, Core DAO’s broader mission is to make Bitcoin more productive without piling on trust assumptions, converting energy and capital tied up in Bitcoin into yield, DeFi activity, and scalable infrastructure.

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Trump: If the US doesn't develop cryptocurrency, other countries will take over On July 6, 2026, during a White House event, Trump Donald J. Trump stated that his core reason for becoming a cryptocurrency supporter is to prevent other countries from taking dominance. He believes crypto has tremendous vitality and a massive audience. Trump discussed the Biden administration's initial crackdown on the industry, stating they suddenly became pro-crypto only after taking a significant hit in the polls. Furthermore, noting the massive capital flowing into Bitcoin, he believes that currently, no one truly understands how powerful Bitcoin really is.

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32,899 views • 1 month ago

The XRP Army sniffed this guy out long ago. Now he's saying the quiet part out loud. The Bitcoin PR machine made a decision somewhere back in 2017 to serve up a plate of nothing but Bitcoin Bitcoin Bitcoin Ethereum Bitcoin Bitcoin Ethereum and it was a plate of BS with a side of more BS. They had plenty of help from their friends at CNBC and the mainstream crypto media. We stayed focused on what made sense not only to us but to Pomp himself before he was told to change his narrative. XRP. Lock In!
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The XRP Army sniffed this guy out long ago. Now he's saying the quiet part out loud. The Bitcoin PR machine made a decision somewhere back in 2017 to serve up a plate of nothing but Bitcoin Bitcoin Bitcoin Ethereum Bitcoin Bitcoin Ethereum and it was a plate of BS with a side of more BS. They had plenty of help from their friends at CNBC and the mainstream crypto media. We stayed focused on what made sense not only to us but to Pomp himself before he was told to change his narrative. XRP. Lock In!

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82,602 views • 3 months ago

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60,983 views • 18 days ago

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💥📺 Dr ADAM BACK on the ARCHIE PODCAST - Why many OG cypherpunks totally missed Bitcoin - Bitcoin's elegance and trying to improve it - Bitcoin Treasury cos and institutional adoption We went deep, and covered Adam's history in Bitcoin, why he went away (and returned!), the cultural evolution of Bitcoin, and so much more. Adam on 𝕏: Adam Back Website: Blockstream: SPONSORS GEMINI - Buy Bitcoin 👉 Gemini is a full-reserve, and highly-regulated cryptocurrency exchange and custodian. DeBiFi - Bitcoin-backed loans 👉 Use Bitcoin to borrow cash. Flexible conditions and great rates. TIME STAMPS 0:50 - Cypherpunk Early Days 6:33 - Who Were the Cypherpunks? 11:30 - Spam Filters 19:00 - Comparing Bitcoin Culture, Then and Now 22:36 - Making a Change 25:06 - Adam Back's PHD 26:30 - Cypherpunk Inventions 29:00 - Bitcoin Predecessors 35:47 - The Elegance of Bitcoin 44:28 - Finding Solutions 53:14 - The Bitcoin White Paper 55:52 - Early Interest in Bitcoin 1:06:45 - Bitcoin Aversion 1:10:48 - Waiting For the Dip 1:13:46 - Day Trading 1:17:33 - Trading bitcoin 1:21:23 - Trading Bitcoin Cycles 1:29:53 - Shrinking Bitcoin Reserves 1:34:06 - Increasing Institutional Bitcoin Support 1:38:22 - Bitcoin Treasury Companies 1:39:33 - Proof of Reserves 1:45:24 - MicroStrategy 2:07:27 - FUD 2:13:34 - Bitcoin Price Predictions

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215,709 views • 1 year ago

🔥THE ANTI-SAYLOR BITCOINERS HAVE LOST THEIR MINDS🔥 Bitcoiners spent 15 years screaming “BUY BITCOIN” into the void. Then Michael Saylor heard them, walked into the capital markets casino with a flamethrower, and started converting fiat clown paper into the hardest asset on Earth at industrial scale. Naturally, half the Bitcoin priesthood had a nervous breakdown. In this video, I break down the absurd anti-Saylor meltdown, the fake “centralization” panic, the hilarious double standard around large Bitcoin holders, and why Strategy’s Bitcoin accumulation is exactly what winning looks like. A public company buying Bitcoin from willing sellers at market prices does not break Bitcoin. It breaks the brains of people who wanted Bitcoin to win, but only slowly, politely, and in a way that preserved their status as conference goblins with self-custody affiliate links. Bitcoin does not care who buys it. Individuals. Companies. Institutions. Sovereign wealth funds. Pension funds. Weird libertarians in cargo shorts. Anyone can buy. That is the whole point. The anti-Saylor Bitcoiners have lost their minds:
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"Classic Polymarket having a poorly worded thing that wasn't thought through" Kain on the Polymarket MicroStrategy Bitcoin question mess "The actual question is, will MicroStrategy sell any Bitcoin by 05/31/2026? Yes. But it wasn't disclosed until June 1. Because there never is" "If you're saying we would only resolve this yes if it was announced, then it should say will MicroStrategy announce that they sold Bitcoin by the thirty first. But it doesn't say that" "It says will they sell it? And they did, pretty clearly, but they didn't announce that. And so here we are"
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"Classic Polymarket having a poorly worded thing that wasn't thought through" Kain on the Polymarket MicroStrategy Bitcoin question mess "The actual question is, will MicroStrategy sell any Bitcoin by 05/31/2026? Yes. But it wasn't disclosed until June 1. Because there never is" "If you're saying we would only resolve this yes if it was announced, then it should say will MicroStrategy announce that they sold Bitcoin by the thirty first. But it doesn't say that" "It says will they sell it? And they did, pretty clearly, but they didn't announce that. And so here we are"

Laura Shin

12,471 views • 2 months ago

VanEck CEO Jan van Eck on CNBC: “There’s something else going on within the Bitcoin community that non-crypto people need to know about. And that is: ultimately, VanEck has been around before Bitcoin. We will walk away from Bitcoin if we think the thesis is fundamentally broken. We don’t right now, but you always have to look at the underlying technology and the crypto. What the Bitcoin community has been asking itself is: Is there enough encryption in Bitcoin, because quantum computing is coming? And secondly: Is there enough privacy in Bitcoin? And so a lot of Bitcoin OGs or maxis have been looking at Zcash. Zcash is a token. It’s sort of related to Bitcoin with a lot more privacy. The kind of garbage that we got about Bitcoin four years ago was: ‘It’s used for all bad illicit behavior.’ But now everyone kind of realizes that when you move money around on the Bitcoin blockchain, you can see it. You can see it move from one wallet to another. And a lot of people are looking for more privacy.”
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VanEck CEO Jan van Eck on CNBC: “There’s something else going on within the Bitcoin community that non-crypto people need to know about. And that is: ultimately, VanEck has been around before Bitcoin. We will walk away from Bitcoin if we think the thesis is fundamentally broken. We don’t right now, but you always have to look at the underlying technology and the crypto. What the Bitcoin community has been asking itself is: Is there enough encryption in Bitcoin, because quantum computing is coming? And secondly: Is there enough privacy in Bitcoin? And so a lot of Bitcoin OGs or maxis have been looking at Zcash. Zcash is a token. It’s sort of related to Bitcoin with a lot more privacy. The kind of garbage that we got about Bitcoin four years ago was: ‘It’s used for all bad illicit behavior.’ But now everyone kind of realizes that when you move money around on the Bitcoin blockchain, you can see it. You can see it move from one wallet to another. And a lot of people are looking for more privacy.”

Arjun Khemani

569,098 views • 9 months ago

Threadguy predicts this will be the first bull run in crypto history where Bitcoin doesn't participate "This is going to be the first bull run in the history of crypto where Bitcoin flat out does not participate. No role, no say, it will be minimal at best. It will be Bitcoin to $75k, Bitcoin to $80k, Bitcoin to $85k, and there will be mania on-chain." "My entire thesis is that the next cycle comes from new blood getting access to on chain through these apps. This new crowd doesn't even know what Bitcoin is. Anyone that joined because they saw Kimchi or Cented or Rasmr, they don't know what Bitcoin is. If there's a pocket of excitement and new blood in crypto, it will have nothing to do with Bitcoin, the same way Bitcoin had nothing to do with the disaster that on-chain became in 2025. You cannot have it both ways. The two have been separated for years."
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Threadguy predicts this will be the first bull run in crypto history where Bitcoin doesn't participate "This is going to be the first bull run in the history of crypto where Bitcoin flat out does not participate. No role, no say, it will be minimal at best. It will be Bitcoin to $75k, Bitcoin to $80k, Bitcoin to $85k, and there will be mania on-chain." "My entire thesis is that the next cycle comes from new blood getting access to on chain through these apps. This new crowd doesn't even know what Bitcoin is. Anyone that joined because they saw Kimchi or Cented or Rasmr, they don't know what Bitcoin is. If there's a pocket of excitement and new blood in crypto, it will have nothing to do with Bitcoin, the same way Bitcoin had nothing to do with the disaster that on-chain became in 2025. You cannot have it both ways. The two have been separated for years."

Kai

163,788 views • 16 days ago

Did Epstein influence Bitcoin core development? Short answer: No. This is not how Bitcoin works. Here’s what happened: Epstein donated to MIT Media Lab…who in turn supported MIT Digital Currency Initiative…which in turn funded Bitcoin developers. These devs used to be funded by The Bitcoin Foundation (which I used to run as volunteer Executive Director) there are many devs and no dev or team had power or control over Bitcoin. Under MIT’s patronage the devs had the same deal they had with us at The Bitcoin Foundation: that they could work on the code and not have direction from the org. More importantly — how Bitcoin works is that *even if* a dev was compromised then the nodes and miners would still have to run that code to make it included in Bitcoin. So for example if I had somehow asked the devs paid by Bitcoin Foundation to “add 1000 coins for Bruce” 1) they wouldn’t have done this / it would have been counter to our agreement 2) no miners would run that code & no nodes would recognize it. It would be a laughing stock and completely rejected. Does this mean code dev is not an attack vector? No. It’s still a risk. Particularly with nation state style actors and very careful efforts to co-opt which are much more sophisticated than “give Bruce coins” or something. This is one reason I’m cautious of Bitcoin core funding - especially from actors who’ve had bad judgment in the past. I think we should be cautious of who does the dev and view it as an attack vector. Bitcoin code is transparent and has lots of eyes on it. So in this case especially there isn’t even a solid accusation, let alone evidence that MIT directed nefarious code changes. If that was an allegation the first question should be: well what code specifically did MIT direct and what proof is there and how was it harmful? I think claims around this would collapse. There’s obviously plenty to criticize about Epstein and MIT working with him — and when it comes to digital assets MIT’s work with Gensler and especially its work on CBDCs is much more suspect than the chance that malicious code was pushed through on Bitcoin. Be cautious but this is a nothing burger
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Did Epstein influence Bitcoin core development? Short answer: No. This is not how Bitcoin works. Here’s what happened: Epstein donated to MIT Media Lab…who in turn supported MIT Digital Currency Initiative…which in turn funded Bitcoin developers. These devs used to be funded by The Bitcoin Foundation (which I used to run as volunteer Executive Director) there are many devs and no dev or team had power or control over Bitcoin. Under MIT’s patronage the devs had the same deal they had with us at The Bitcoin Foundation: that they could work on the code and not have direction from the org. More importantly — how Bitcoin works is that *even if* a dev was compromised then the nodes and miners would still have to run that code to make it included in Bitcoin. So for example if I had somehow asked the devs paid by Bitcoin Foundation to “add 1000 coins for Bruce” 1) they wouldn’t have done this / it would have been counter to our agreement 2) no miners would run that code & no nodes would recognize it. It would be a laughing stock and completely rejected. Does this mean code dev is not an attack vector? No. It’s still a risk. Particularly with nation state style actors and very careful efforts to co-opt which are much more sophisticated than “give Bruce coins” or something. This is one reason I’m cautious of Bitcoin core funding - especially from actors who’ve had bad judgment in the past. I think we should be cautious of who does the dev and view it as an attack vector. Bitcoin code is transparent and has lots of eyes on it. So in this case especially there isn’t even a solid accusation, let alone evidence that MIT directed nefarious code changes. If that was an allegation the first question should be: well what code specifically did MIT direct and what proof is there and how was it harmful? I think claims around this would collapse. There’s obviously plenty to criticize about Epstein and MIT working with him — and when it comes to digital assets MIT’s work with Gensler and especially its work on CBDCs is much more suspect than the chance that malicious code was pushed through on Bitcoin. Be cautious but this is a nothing burger

Bruce Fenton

231,920 views • 6 months ago