This week Paramount + Warner Bros become one company 🎬 Fewer studios, fewer buyers. "$50 million. No creative control. No equity. No residuals. And we won't tell you how your movie did." Zack Mahoney on the streaming deal 👇 🎧 Parts 1+2: tinyurl.com/yck8u6sa

Strive bought 2,000 BTC last week and now holds 29,462. About 61.5% of the money came from selling preferred shares, a fixed-dividend Wall Street product. Companies now fund Bitcoin with bonds and preferreds. Would you buy a Bitcoin-backed preferred, or just the coin? 👇

Bitcoin Core 32.0 is due Oct 10. If you run a node, a 3-step checklist before you upgrade: 1. Back up your wallet 2. Download only from bitcoincore.org 3. Verify the signatures and SHA256 hash No consensus changes, so there's no rush. Your node, your pace. 🔐

What is Bitcoin actually competing with? Not stocks. Base money: cash + bank reserves. ~$26.2T. @Matthew Mezinskis explains 👇 🎧 tinyurl.com/yck8u6sa New episode Tue 13 Oct, then every Tuesday · 16:00 CET

Gas wells with no pipeline. Methane from cow manure. A small hydro plant. Bob Burnett (@Bob Burnett) of Barefoot Mining explains how Bitcoin miners turn energy nobody else can use into something useful, and burn methane cleaner instead of letting it leak into the air. This week South Africa's Eskom proposed selling its surplus solar power to Bitcoin miners. Miners as the buyer of wasted energy is already a real business. Full episode, link in bio. 🎙️ New BitCorner episode Tuesday 13 Oct, then every Tuesday · 16:00 CET · 10 AM ET · 7 AM PT 🇸🇻 Support the show: Blockstream Jade code BITCORNERPODCAST (10% off) · Bitcoin Amsterdam tickets code BITCORNER. Links in bio. #bitcoin #bitcoinmining #energy #strandedenergy #bitcornerpodcast

Bitcoin just flipped gold for 2026. 🟠 On March 2, 1 BTC bought just 12.1 oz of gold. Today it buys 20.4 oz: +68% against gold in 7 months. Gold peaked near $5,500 in January and sits near $4,150 now, while Bitcoin is up 44% from its summer low. Year to date: Bitcoin −3.5%, gold −4.2%. A lead of less than a point, so the race is wide open. Bitcoin or gold by December 31? Tell us 👇 🎙️ New BitCorner episode every Friday · 16:00 CET · 10 AM ET · 7 AM PT 🇸🇻 Support the show: Blockstream Jade code BITCORNERPODCAST (10% off) · Bitcoin Amsterdam tickets code BITCORNER. Links in bio. Data: CoinGecko (BTC, PAXG). Not financial advice.

NEW EPISODE · OUT NOW! 🚨 Exponential… or power law? 📈 @Matthew Mezinskis walks through the power law chart and why Bitcoin is still under 5% of the world's base money. Watch now 👇 tinyurl.com/yck8u6sa Every Friday · 16:00 CET · 10 AM ET

Crypto lost $1.26B in 247 hacks and exploits in Q3, per @CertiK. September alone: $768.5M, the worst month of 2026. Coins in a wallet you control can't be drained by someone else's platform hack. 🔐

El Salvador broke its Bitcoin promise to the IMF. And the IMF paid anyway. 🇸🇻 $138M released on Oct 1. The state wallet kept growing to ~7,787 BTC. The deal now says: no more state Bitcoin beyond documented donations. Bitcoin stays legal. Using it stays voluntary. The state just can't be the one stacking it. Smart compromise or quiet retreat? 👇 🎧 New BitCorner episode every Friday · 16:00 CET · 10 AM ET 👉🏼 lnkd.in/eZnP6ZiB

El Salvador 🇸🇻 gets a $138M IMF payout after the Fund waived its breach of the Bitcoin accumulation limit. The government says recent BTC additions came from private donations. The IMF says it expects no more accumulation beyond documented donations (@IMFNews).

The SEC proposed letting investment advisers and funds self-custody crypto 🔐 Only when no qualified custodian is available, and with conditions: a separate address per client, dual approval for transfers, annual security reviews. 60 days of public comment next (@SECGov).

In early 2011, someone collected about 20 BTC in payouts from Slush Pool, one of the first mining pools. Rough value back then: $70. On Sept 29, those coins moved for the first time in 15 years. Today they're worth ~$1.7M (via @BTCTN). Patience is a strategy.

The Netherlands is rethinking how it taxes your Bitcoin. The Dutch cabinet told parliament it wants to tax investment gains when they're REALIZED, starting in 2028, instead of an assumed yearly return (via @BitcoinMagazine). Open question: does Bitcoin move in 2028 or 2030?

Spain 🇪🇸: if you hold your own keys, your Bitcoin doesn't go on Modelo 721. Hacienda's binding ruling V0848/26: crypto is only reported when a custodian OUTSIDE Spain holds the keys and it's worth over €50,000 on Dec 31 (via @cryptodotnews). Still taxed when you sell.

📰 US PCE inflation came in at 3.4% on Wednesday, below the 3.7% expected. Bitcoin jumped to ~$85,500 within the hour, then gave it back as the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 5.30%, its highest since 2002 (via @CoinDesk). Cooler inflation. Same expensive money.

US consumer confidence just fell to 81.9, the lowest since 2014 (@Conferenceboard). For the first time since the question was added four years ago, more Americans called their family finances "bad" than "good". Prices were the top complaint. Sound money, anyone?

Europe just got the world's first euro-hedged Bitcoin fund. HANetf's Arrow Bitcoin EUR Hedged ETC (EBTC) is listed on Xetra and Euronext Paris, with HSBC hedging the dollar risk. Fee: 0.49% a year (via @BitcoinMagazine). Bitcoin exposure, minus the EUR/USD swings 🇪🇺

JPMorgan puts Bitcoin's average production cost at ~$85,000. Last week BTC briefly broke above it, ending 280 straight days below, per @TheBlock__. Now it's back near $83K. When price sits under cost, the weakest miners sell or switch off ⛏️

Bitcoin is up about 7% in September after +25% in August. Since 2013, every green August has been followed by a red September (via CoinDesk). Two days left to break the streak 👀

Five years after making Bitcoin legal tender, El Salvador is building a government-backed app for digital dollars and remittances, per Bloomberg: stablecoins on Coinbase's Base network. Dollars to spend, Bitcoin to save? We're watching this one closely 🇸🇻