State of the Network Update

History is moving whether anyone is ready or not. How the system is under pressure, and why it will flow toward Bitcoin.

Episode Links

• 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US
• 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform
• ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning
• 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats
• 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling

Boost Question:

• Exit Interview: How do you grade our Crypto Czar?

Show Notes:

• Understanding the National Debt | U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data
• Jerome Powell says $39 trillion national debt is ‘not unsustainable,’ but it ‘will not end well’
• 'ENERGY SHOCKS': Recession fears EXPLODE as oil disruption ROCKS Wall Street - YouTube
• The World Uncertainty Index just hit 105,000. Higher than Covid.
• Fannie Mae accepts first Bitcoin-backed mortgage product
• Crypto and Bitcoin mortgages
• The System Isn’t Broken - It’s Rigged | Lyn Alden - YouTube
• David Sacks says his time as Trump's crypto and AI czar has ended
• Tether Was Born On Bitcoin. Twelve Years Later, Is It Coming Back?
• Google Finds Quantum Computers Could Break Bitcoin Sooner Than Expected
• Blockstream Research dropped a new post-quantum signature scheme: SHRIMPS
• Developers are currently working on a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal to strengthen Bitcoin against quantum, with a test net already deployed
• MARA sold 15,000 BTC, Bitdeer sold all of its BTC, Riot is selling BTC from treasury to fund data center build-outs, Auradine just rebranded to Velaura AI. The biggest miners are leaving the game.
• 31.0 Adding Cluster mempool

Music

• I Need a Little By: The Retrograde