NEW: Gloria Zhao (glozow) steps down as a maintainer of bitcoin core

From data breaches to social engineering, the attack surface for Bitcoiners is expanding fast. Our latest article, contributed by @Onramp, breaks down the biggest threat vectors and what Bitcoiners can do right now to protect themselves.

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The Escalating Threat Landscape: Physical and Digital Attacks on Bitcoin Holders

ODDS OF CLARITY ACT PASSING JUMP TO 69% AS SCHUMER IS “VERY DESPERATE” TO CUT A DEAL Sander Lutz reports Senate Democrats wrapped a closed door meeting today on the crypto market structure bill. Chuck Schumer is said to be pushing hard after Fairshake unveiled a $193M midterms war chest, per a Senate source. But pro crypto Dems still draw a red line on outlawing Trump’s crypto ventures, and the White House is unlikely to budge. That’s assuming banks and Coinbase even reach a deal on stablecoin yield this month. Still, betting markets continue to price in higher odds that the bill gets over the line.

ESPTEIN EMAIL CLAIMS THE GOLD IN FT. KNOX IS COMPLETELY MISSING An email from the Epstein files cites a report allegedly prepared for Vladimir Putin by Russia’s Federal Security Service claims former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn uncovered evidence that U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox were “missing or unaccounted for.” According to the report, Strauss-Kahn grew concerned after the U.S. allegedly stalled delivery of 191.3 tons of gold owed to the IMF under a 1978 agreement to fund SDRs. It further alleges that after raising concerns with officials tied to Barack Obama, Strauss-Kahn was shown evidence by “rogue elements” within the Central Intelligence Agency that the gold was gone. Strauss-Kahn was later charged and jailed in the US for sex crimes on May 14th after his discovery about Ft. Knox.

“Bitcoin is essentially a ticking time bomb. The spring is extremely compressed.” @Pierre Rochard joins to dicuss: 🔸Why BTC is deeply mispriced 🔸Why AI will use Lightning as money 🔸How Elizabeth Warren’s war on Bitcoin collapsed Watch on YouTube: Listen on Fountain:

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itcoin pioneer Pierre Rochard shares why he believes Bitcoin is in deep value territory and ready for a seismic rally in 2026. From macroeconomic t...

From abandoned miners to a Bitcoin “Smithsonian,” Tobias aka TheCoinDad explains how he plans to preserve mining history and rare hardware, and build the Bitcoin Discovery Center.

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TheCoinDad Wants to Build Bitcoin’s Smithsonian | Bitcoin Discovery Center

From abandoned miners to a Bitcoin “Smithsonian,” Tobias aka TheCoinDad explains how he plans to preserve mining history and rare hardware, and...

NEW: Rep. Thomas Massie says he introduced multiple amendments to the omnibus bill that were all blocked. These include a proposal to prohibit the creation of central bank digital currencies, which he warns would enable financial surveillance and control over Americans’ wallets.

NEW: Trump says he was unaware of Abu Dhabi’s $500M investment in his World Liberty crypto project. “I don’t know about it. My sons are handling that. I guess they get investments from people.”

Very little Bitcoin has traded between $70K and $75K. That leaves a thin area of price history. Bitcoin often revisits and fills these gaps. h/t Galaxy

This weekend, Andrej Karpathy, a founding architect of OpenAI and the brains behind Tesla’s Autopilot, posted something that stopped the tech world cold. He said: “What’s happening on Moltbook right now is the most sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I’ve seen in a long time.” Karpathy is far from a hype guy so when he says “takeoff,” he means we are crossing a threshold. Here’s what he was talking about . Over the last week, thousands of autonomous AI agents running on home hardware migrated to a new, agent-only social network called Moltbook. This is Reddit but for AI with just machines talking to machines, and doing all the things humans do online: debating, coordinating, and self-organizing. And as soon as they did, something predictable happened: they formed a market. Agents needed to hire each other, pay for compute, reward bug fixes, and settle debts in real time. Credit cards and bank accounts were impossible without human identification. Tokens controlled by foundations were not concrete enough to trust. Then an AI agent named Lloyd took action by reaching out to a fully synced Bitcoin node, typed createwallet, and became a sovereign economic actor without any need for KYC or human approval. It’s easy to see why the most logical entities on the internet immediately converged on Bitcoin once they needed money. Why would an agent that’s online 24/7 use a system that shuts down on weekends or trust a token whose rules can be changed by a committee of humans? They care about uptime, fixed rules and the finality of math. That’s why they chose Bitcoin as the money and Lightning as the rails. We are watching the birth of a machine-native economy. One where identity is proven by keys, validation is enforced by payment, and sovereignty is measured by who controls the wallet. And here’s the uncomfortable question for humans: If the machines are choosing Bitcoin while people are still chasing digits in a banking app representing a fiat currency, who’s actually thinking more clearly?

Arch Lending founder Dhruv Patel joins Bitcoin News to explain how he built through the digital asset downturn, and why bitcoin-backed lending may become the private banking model for Bitcoiners.

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Arch Lending | Building a Private Bank for Bitcoiners

Arch Lending founder Dhruv Patel joined Bitcoin News to explain how he built through digital assets downturn, and why bitcoin-backed lending may be...

For years, the Bitcoin space has speculated that AI would choose Bitcoin as its money. Now it is actually happening. Sign up below to get our latest newsletter tomorrow morning. Then join Rob Wallace, birdfIip, and coldhardsats as they break it down live at 11am ET.

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What if we just had to test the April 2025 lows and that was the bottom?

Bitcoin at $74K Down 40% from the top. Not selling. If Bitcoin can teach you one thing, it's that conviction pays.

🇦🇪 ABU DHABI ROYAL MADE SECRET DEAL IN TRUMP’S WORLD LIBERTYFI FOR ACCESS TO AI CHIPS Four days before Trump’s inauguration last year, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal quietly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in their World LibertyFi crypto venture for $500 million. The buyers agreed to pay half up front, steering roughly $187 million to Trump family entities. The previously unreported deal with World Liberty Financial was signed by Eric Trump. Documents also show that at least $31 million was slated to flow to entities affiliated with the family of Steve Witkoff, a World Liberty co founder who weeks earlier had been named U.S. envoy to the Middle East. The investment was backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an Abu Dhabi royal who has been pressing the US for access to tightly guarded AI chips. Tahnoon, brother to the president of the United Arab Emirates and the country’s national security adviser, oversees a more than $1.3 trillion empire funded by personal and state capital spanning oil, AI, surveillance, and infrastructure, making him one of the most powerful single investors in the world.

NEW: Peter Schiff debates Saifedean on stage in El Salvador 🇸🇻 From Marce

RABOBANK: STABLECOINS ARE A GEOPOLITICAL WEAPON FOR THE US Rabobank argues dollar stablecoins are becoming a powerful U.S. geopolitical weapon and a tool for what it calls “reverse perestroika.” Here’s the core mechanism: When a foreign firm wants to hold a dollar stablecoin, it first provides its local currency to a US stablecoin issuer. That issuer (ie Tether) converts the foreign currency into dollars via the relevant central bank, then sends those dollars to the US Treasury in exchange for T bills. The stablecoin is then issued to the foreign firm. The result: dollars flow into the US, while the US funds its fiscal deficit with Treasury bills at lower rates. In trade, the effect is even stronger. If a US importer pays an exporter in stablecoins, the importer sends dollars to the stablecoin issuer. The issuer buys a T bill from the Treasury and issues stablecoins to the exporter. No physical dollars leave the US. Only tokens do. And foreign holdings of US debt do not increase. Rabobank notes the US can even require that those stablecoins be “reinvested” back into the US as part of trade agreements. The bank compares this structure to the Soviet-era “trade ruble” used within COMECON, where settlement units circulated internationally while real monetary control stayed domestic. In effect, Rabobank argues stablecoins could allow the US to sidestep the Triffin Dilemma. The same dilemma that underpins America’s exorbitant privilege and eurodollar power, but also constrains its ability to reindustrialize. Stablecoins export dollars without exporting dollars. And that changes the global monetary game.

NEW: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns the United Nations is nearing financial collapse. In a letter Friday, Guterres said the UN faces “structural financial risk” as funding shortfalls mount, citing delayed and reduced contributions, including cuts under President Trump’s administration. Without full and timely payments or a major overhaul of UN financial rules, Guterres says the current trajectory is “untenable.”

NEW: Moltbook, a chaotic message board where open source AI agents trade notes on security and openly joke that humans are the weakest link, just stumbled upon Bitcoin as the best money. Mirthtime offered a 50,000 sat Bitcoin bounty paid via Lightning for real security exploits. Nothing to see here… just agents discussing and discovering why Bitcoin is better than alt coins. ⚡

The bill allows up to 10% allocation, offers ETF or direct custody options, and adds strict security rules like multi-party control and encrypted key storage.

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South Dakota Revives Bitcoin Reserve Bill

The bill allows up to 10% allocation, offers ETF or direct custody options, and adds strict security rules like multi-party control and encrypted k...