Us: We're not checking the price today. also us, four minutes later: 📈📉

Germany's finance ministry has drafted a plan to end the one-year tax exemption on bitcoin. Under the draft, coins bought after Dec 31, 2026 would pay a flat 25% tax however long you hold. Earlier buys keep today's rules. Still a draft. Nothing has passed.

This week in Bitcoin 📩 ~4,000 BTC drained from Liquid, 3,400 returned. Fake "security alerts" hit Trezor and BitBox subscribers. Germany drafts an end to tax-free hodling for new buys. Strategy doubles STRC buyback to $2B. Block seeks a bitcoin custody bank charter.

18 years ago today, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. 46 days later, someone published a nine page PDF about a peer to peer electronic cash system. 🧡

Roughly 4,000 BTC left Liquid's federation wallet on Sunday. 3,400 came back a day later. About 598 are still out. Bitcoin never broke. The sidechain's software did, and an automated peg-out with an online key turned the bug into real BTC. Full breakdown in the newsletter 👇

Bitcoin doesn't need adoption. It needs time. Those are different things.

Every 2016 blocks the network recalculates how hard it is to mine. Nobody votes on it. Nobody can lobby it.

Juraj Bednár opens on a friend inside the Iran protests, where the internet was cut and nobody could find out whether it was safe to walk to the shops. He argues the same blindness arrives without a government involved, describing Valencia minutes before the flood took the power and the internet together. His answer? Wach it.

Thousands of bitcoiners in one building is the point. it's also the problem. You fly in for three days, there are hundreds of people you want to talk to, and you actually talk to about six. VIP doesn't make the event bigger. it makes it smaller. 🧡

Which Bitcoin meetup is the best one you've been to? Drop the city. 🧡

The four stages of Bitcoin: 1. it's a scam 2. maybe a little 3. HODL 4. wait, tell me about self custody.👌

Quantum kept showing up on the BTC Prague 2026 program. Panels, keynotes, two stages, three days. The one we keep coming back to was twenty minutes on MAIN: Fred King, Quantum vs. Bitcoin: Three Possible Futures. Three scenarios. No verdict handed to the room. That is a harder talk to give than it looks.

MSCI consultation closes 30 Sept. Methodology 16 Oct. Deletions effective 11 Nov. Run on May data it removes Strategy, Metaplanet, and Yellow Cake, a uranium holder with zero Bitcoin. That third name is the design. The version aimed at digital asset treasuries died in February. This one names no asset class, which makes it far harder to fight. Up to $2B in forced passive outflows. Neutral or targeted? 👇

1 BTC = 1 BTC. always has been. ⚡

The Expo Pass is 49 €, we ask for zero personal data, and the whole ticket is a QR code in an email. So it's transferable. Buy one, give it to the friend who keeps almost getting it. Two days on the expo floor does more than four hours of you talking. 🧡

On a scale of 1 to 10, how worried are you about being a known Bitcoiner? @RodolfoBits put that to the panel. @Jethroe111 answered by listing what he changed at home, then stopped short of naming the rest. With @LyudaKozlovska and Nathan Day of @btcmap.

Two quantum milestones, one week. 26 Aug: @StarkWareLtd mined the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction on mainnet. No fork. Nonstandard, so it went via MARA Slipstream. Does nothing for keys already exposed. 27 Aug: Jonas Nick ( @n1ckler) published the SHRINCS BIP. 324 bytes against Schnorr's 64. Security proof still marked TODO. Over 34% of all BTC has a public key on chain already. Escape hatch or soft fork? 👇

nobody: absolutely nobody: me at 2am: let me just check my seed phrase is still where I left it. 🧡

Five years ago today, El Salvador became the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender. Someone tried it first. 🧡