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Texas launched its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve with a $5M buy during a price dip, aiming to move from an ETF to full self-custody. https://bitcoinnews.com/adoption/texas-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-5-million/

“CBDCs and currency controls aren’t theoretical. They’re coming. You need Bitcoin before things get bad.” @Efrat Fenigson joins to discuss: 🔸Bukele in person 🔸Global financial control 🔸Bitcoin adoption in 🇸🇻 SV, 🇺🇸 US, & 🇨🇭CH Full interview here: Listen on Fountain:

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From El Salvador to Europe: Efrat Fenigson on the Bitcoin Revolution Across the Globe. Rob Wallace sits down with independent journalist, Bitcoiner...

INTERVIEW: @EVAN KALOUDIS built @ZEUS, an on-chain and Lightning Bitcoin wallet that starts simple and guides users step by step to full Bitcoin self-custody. https://bitcoinnews.com/interviews/evan-kaloudis-zeus-bitcoin-wallet/

MSCI may drop Strategy from key indexes, risking forced fund sell-offs and sparking a surge of #BoycottJPMorgan backlash across the Bitcoin community. https://bitcoinnews.com/markets/jpmorgan-backlash-strategys-bitcoin/

NEW: Strategy’s STRC preferred stock is rebounding sharply after last week’s collapse and is now just 2.5 percent below its $100 peg.

Senator Lummis: "Operation Chokepoint 2.0 regrettably lives on. Policies like JP Morgan’s [debanking of Jack Mallers] undermine confidence in traditional banks and send the digital asset industry overseas. It’s past time we put Operation Chokepoint 2.0 to rest to make America the digital asset capital of the world."

IS JPMORGAN TRYING TO CRUSH MSTR TO PREVENT A BITCOIN BREAKOUT? For 6 weeks straight, Bitcoin has been bleeding. Lower highs, lower lows, leading to a 30% drawdown. But if you think Bitcoin is taking it on the chin, look at Michael Saylor. Since July, MicroStrategy is down 60%. He’ll say “volatility is vitality,” but moves like this are more brutal than invigorating. So now everyone’s asking the same question: Is this just another ugly bull-market correction… or did something hit this market from the outside? A growing group of analysts think they’re seeing a pattern. This weekend, @HodlMaryland dropped a viral article arguing we’re watching a direct clash between 2 monetary regimes. The old order, built around JPMorgan, Wall Street, and the Federal Reserve. And a new order, forming around the US Treasury, stablecoins, and a Bitcoin-anchored digital architecture. In that framing, Bitcoin the ground the fight is happening on. And MicroStrategy is the bridge between the system that exists and the one trying to emerge. MSTR has become the conversion engine that turns fiat, credit, and treasuries into long-duration Bitcoin exposure at scale. If you believe the US ultimately wants Bitcoin reserves and stablecoin rails, then MSTR is a crucial on-ramp. If you are JPMorgan, defending a system where banks intermediate dollar creation and control settlement, that bridge looks like a threat that needs to be severed. Now line that up with the timeline critics are pointing to: • Spring: Jim Chanos announces a loud “long BTC, short MSTR” trade. • July: JPMorgan hikes MSTR margin requirements from 50% to 95%, cutting off leverage and triggering liquidations. • September: MSCI quietly signals it may reclassify Bitcoin treasury companies as “funds,” risking their removal from major indexes. • October: MSCI posts a cryptic consultation update—16 minutes before Trump’s tariff tweets spark a global flash crash. • November: After weeks of selling, JPM dusts off that 42-day-old document and pushes it as breaking “delisting risk.” • Same week: traders report frozen transfers and failures to deliver on MSTR shares held at JPM. Is all of this coincidence, or a coordinated attempt to crush the stock that symbolizes corporate Bitcoin adoption? Not everyone buys the thesis. Simon Dixit argues Saylor surrendered to Wall Street the moment he levered up, and that the real resistance is self-custodied Bitcoin, not MSTR. But whatever side you lean toward, one thing is hard to deny. This cycle is unlike any other and the recent drawdown feels like someone tried to stop a Bitcoin breakout before it started. The legacy system wants Bitcoin contained. The emerging system wants accumulation. And Saylor’s Strategy is standing in the middle. Whether this theory is spot on, we cannot be sure. But Bitcoin is now certainly more than a speculative trade... And instead is the battleground where financial behemoths battle over its narrative.

Antonia Roupell reveals how Save the Children is using Bitcoin to deliver faster aid, empower families, and found a new model for humanitarian relief. https://bitcoinnews.com/interviews/antonia-roupell-save-the-children/

Does $150K by April seem that crazy in context?

A sharp drawdown, MSTR delisting chatter and margin hikes have thrown the space into a tailspin. Our newsletter drops tomorrow with why the cycle is far from over. Subscribe below. Then join Rob Wallace, AviNMash and JodyFlournoy at 11 AM as they break it down live.

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NEW: A major academic study on Bitcoin bans finds that Bitcoin bans can't stop BTC. Researchers analyzed 19 countries from 2013 to 2024 and discovered that Bitcoin’s decentralized network keeps markets integrated even under strict bans. China and Russia showed only partial segmentation, while smaller markets saw counterintuitive increases in integration after bans. The study concludes that unilateral restrictions are largely ineffective.

Agents found clusters of Bitmain rigs operating near U.S. military and energy sites, prompting chip-level inspections for covert access risks. https://bitcoinnews.com/legal/bitmain-us-national-security-probe/

Saylor can’t catch a break these days 😅

NEW: Anchorage Digital has added support for Mezo, an EVM-compatible Bitcoin DeFi chain, giving institutions new ways to earn rewards and access liquidity without selling BTC. Clients can now use Anchorage’s self-custody wallet, Porto, to borrow against their BTC at fixed rates starting at 1%. 🤔🧐

Why the weakness in Bitcoin price? Where's the bid? Well, it appears every single treasury company, aside from Strategy, has stopped buying Bitcoin in Q4.

Bitcoin hashprice hits a decade low as mining difficulty and low transaction fees squeeze miner revenue despite Bitcoin’s still-high price. https://bitcoinnews.com/mining/bitcoin-hashprice-lowest-in-a-decade/

Generation Alpha will be Bitcoin-native.