The Latest Bitcoin & Macro news: Weekly Recap 13.04.2026: https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq0ractzc0mkwq58mcevqnvtqn5vjqluzthtkw49ejp0fe2q9vs4gqy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3xamnwvaz7tm0venxx6rpd9hzuur4vghsq9tsvcex7n6kwekxc6e3fp55junxvd5hquztsewszf Do you think this post is helpful? If so, please share it with your friends, family, and co-workers, and support my work with a zap. ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃ ⭐️ Many thanks⭐️ Felipe - Bitcoin Friday! ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃

Disclaimer: I am still a bit behind on the news each week, but I still want to share these insights with you. In this post, I will share the recap for the period 07.04 - 13.04 On Nostr, I will exclusively share the most significant Bitcoin news. (this note) For those (still) beyond Nostr—friends, family, and colleagues—the complete Weekly Recap will be accessible on my Bitcoin Friday page on Yakihonne. (next note) Enriched with detailed charts, illustrative images, and comprehensive macroeconomic news to provide context and clarity. Happy reading! 🧠Quote(s) of the week: > 'For 5000 years, people have agreed: > 3000 BC: Money should be scarce. > 2000 BC: Money should be scarce. > 1000 BC: Money should be scarce. > 0: Money should be scarce. > 1000: Money should be scarce. > 1500: Money should be scarce. > 1900: Money should be scarce. > 1914-1970: Ok, but what if it’s not? > 1971: Money is what the government says it is. > 1990: Financialize all the things. > 2008: Oops, maybe not. > 2009: Money should be scarce -> Bitcoin. > 2010-2019: Bitcoin makes no sense. > 2020: Money printer go brrrr. > 2021: Wait, maybe Bitcoin makes sense. > 2025: Money should be scarce. > A currency that can be infinitely printed by a government is an anomaly. You don’t have to accept it; opt out with Bitcoin.' - Bitcoin Teddy 🧡Bitcoin news🧡 Photos hosted by Azzamo ( https://azzamo.net/) On the 7th of April: ➡️FDIC approves proposal to implement the requirements and standards for US stablecoins under the GENIUS Act. Bull Theory: "The FDIC today approved a full regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act. Here is what it means: Every stablecoin must be backed 1:1 with real assets. If there are $1 billion worth of stablecoins in circulation, the issuer must hold $1 billion in actual reserves without any exceptions. Every stablecoin must be redeemable on demand at face value. If you hold $100 in stablecoins, you can always get $100 back. Reserve assets cannot be rehypothecated or reused. The reserves must sit fully segregated and cannot be used for any other financial activity. Stablecoin issuers cannot pay interest or yield to holders simply for holding the coin. This directly affects yield-bearing stablecoin products currently in the market. If redemption requests exceed 10% of all outstanding stablecoins within a single 24-hour period, it triggers a significant redemption event requiring immediate action. Stablecoin issuers must meet capital requirements and risk management standards similar to those of banks. Quarterly reporting and CEO signed audits are required. Banks that hold or manage stablecoins on behalf of customers are subject to the same rules, with one important clarification. FDIC insurance covers the issuer's reserve deposits at the bank level, not individual token holders. Why is this good for crypto? Right now, stablecoins operate in a gray area. No clear rules means no trust from institutions, no trust from regulators, and no certainty for users. These rules change that. Regulated stablecoins backed by real reserves and covered by FDIC insurance become as safe as a bank deposit. That opens the door for banks, pension funds, and large institutions to use stablecoins without legal risk. A regulated stablecoin market is the foundation that the rest of crypto needs to grow." ➡️2025 is in the rear view - but the "Retire on Bitcoin" numbers have barely changed. My retirement guide estimates, with a $100k/yr living cost (2026 dollars)... 3.5 - 4.5 BTC will be needed to retire by 2030 for many people. Just pick your age and retirement year. - Sminston With https://cdn.azzamo.media/f3684c348f9431eb281745daf069295fa37e644df6f4374980da110b3b5ac484 ➡️Morgan Stanley's spot Bitcoin ETF is expected to begin trading as early as tomorrow Why is this so important? - 16,000 financial advisors can now recommend Bitcoin - $7.4T in assets - The first spot Bitcoin ETF issued directly by a major U.S. bank - Lowest fee at 0.14% On the 8th of April: ➡️Strategy is buying Bitcoin 2.2x faster than the new supply is being created. 94,470 BTC were bought in 2026 alone, while only 43,000 BTC were mined. One buyer is outpacing Bitcoin’s entire issuance. ➡️The rational root: Different presidents, same monetary direction. https://cdn.azzamo.media/609bf3d9dc981049e6fb49856f9dad7593336f567e256898a7ddc49e5809ed28 ➡️Long-term holders now hold 21% of the total Bitcoin supply. Available Bitcoin supply keeps shrinking. - Bitcoin Archive https://cdn.azzamo.media/0dfa46d4897713207e5ff146965d2b0bf474d09db92d8cad99093516b23cd95c ➡️Iran is accepting Bitcoin for transit toll payments — Financial Times https://cdn.azzamo.media/83bb86375a2fe596d3443e080d6c09affb69ab08c070f383d81420ce4a18176c TFTC: Iran is charging crypto tolls for every ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Hours after the ceasefire was announced, Iran's oil exporters' union told the Financial Times that every tanker transiting the Strait must email authorities with cargo details, then pay $1 per barrel in bitcoin or stablecoins. For a fully loaded supertanker carrying 2 million barrels, that's a $2 million toll. Empty vessels pass free. Ships that try to transit without permission "will be destroyed." The IRGC has turned the most critical energy chokepoint on Earth into a functioning toll booth. Roughly 20% of the world's daily oil supply flows through this Strait. At pre-war volumes, this system could generate $600 million per month. Payment must be in crypto or yuan. No dollars. No SWIFT. Iran can't use the traditional financial system because of sanctions, so they built around it in real time. Ship operators pay in bitcoin or stablecoins, settling in seconds so transactions "can't be traced or confiscated due to sanctions." At least 26 vessels had already transited under IRGC clearance as of mid-March, with Lloyd's List confirming that at least one operator paid approximately $2 million. The IRGC ranks nations on a 1-to-5 scale of friendliness. China, Russia, and Pakistan get favorable terms. Ships linked to the US or Israel are excluded entirely. This is the largest real-world stablecoin use case ever recorded. Not DeFi yield farming. Not NFT speculation. A sovereign nation is using censorship-resistant money to collect tolls on global energy shipments because the dollar system locked them out. Bitcoiners have said for a decade that this is exactly what would happen. When you weaponize the financial system, adversaries don't comply. They route around it." ➡️Morgan Stanley's spot Bitcoin ETF is on track to be in the "top 1% of ETF launches" today — Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas On the 9th of April: ➡️Bitcoin devs just built a prototype to protect wallets from quantum attacks. Even in worst-case scenarios, Bitcoin could pause normal spending while still allowing users to recover their funds using this new method. Quantum defenses are already being built. - Bitcoin Archive ➡️Bitcoin exchange deposits just hit a 10-year low. Supply is being held, not sold. https://cdn.azzamo.media/ab61071a8904c810c52be804db58a4f99d3e59e67b8a1c06e443d541bd0f2232 ➡️Billionaire Ron Baron spelled it out in the simplest way possible: Money loses 4-5% of its value to Inflation each year, while the economy grows about 2% each year. That’s roughly 7% erosion + growth -- which means prices double about every decade while cash keeps falling behind. If your money is melting, you have to own assets that outrun Inflation. That’s why Bitcoin has crushed every major asset over the last decade. When the system inflates, BTC protects Another one: Former Finance professor Tad Smith: "After 25 years teaching finance, I realized at 58: If the money printer grows 8-10% annually and the S&P 500 returns ~9%, it’s just treading water. True wealth comes from outpacing the printer. That’s the Bitcoin journey." ➡️Bitcoin Archive: - Bitcoin just crossed over the MACD on the weekly chart. - A good indicator of changing momentum from bearish to bullish. - Last cycle, it took the unexpected collapse of FTX to prolong the bear market. This time? Unless the war escalates and markets melt down, it looks like a safe bet that a bottom is forming here. On the 10th of April: ➡️'Bitcoin’s quantum defenses are progressing fast. In the last 2 days, two major quantum-related updates have been released for Bitcoin. One prototype lets users recover their funds if quantum computers break current signatures. Another proposal shows Bitcoin transactions can be made quantum-safe without changing the protocol.' - Bitcoin Archive ➡️If you saved $10,000 in US dollars in 2021, it would buy about $8,000 worth of goods today. If you put $10,000 into Bitcoin in 2021, it would be worth about $24,000 today. Bitcoin protects and grows your wealth. ➡️Sure, Bitcoin is dead. Over 731,000 BTC (~$51.9 billion) moved across 572,454 transactions in 144 blocks, settled in 24 hours. For context, Visa processes ~$41B/day. - Eli Nager ➡️There is a 275% gap between the Inflation you're told and real Inflation. This is why we have Bitcoin. - Bitcoin Teddy ➡️Japan officially approved a bill recognizing Bitcoin and crypto as financial assets. Another step toward mainstream adoption. - Bitcoin Archive ➡️Bitcoin's net exchange volume 30-day moving average has been negative since March 3, signaling accumulation. ➡️'Since I started buying Bitcoin, I have stopped buying more than 97% of the crap I used to tell myself I needed.' - Fernando Nikolic Yet to find a single Bitcoiner who has not noticed this same effect. One of the biggest environmental benefits of Bitcoin is its ability to reduce overconsumption. On the 11th of April: ➡️'A lot of people laughed at Michael Saylor when he called STRC has its iPhone moment. STRC added 3,447 worth $250 million yesterday. Nearly 8 days' worth of newly mined supply has been removed from the market. This week alone, his company raised nearly $700,000,000 and bought nearly 10,000 BTC at the bottom of the bear market. This is one of the most successful financial products of all time.' - The Bitcoin Therapist On the 13th of April: ➡️Standard Chartered's head of digital assets says Bitcoin will hit $500,000 by 2030—near-term target: $100,000 by the end of 2026. If Bitcoin matches gold's market cap, that's $1.6 million per coin. -Bitcoin Archive ➡️Map of Businesses Accepting Payment in Bitcoin. - Documenting Bitcoin > 'Throughout history, all fiat currencies eventually face the same pressures. When debt grows faster than income and money needs to be created to fill the gap, the value of that money changes. This isn’t a prediction—it’s a pattern that has repeated many times. Understanding how these systems work helps you think more clearly about what comes next.' - Ray Dalio 🎁If you have made it this far, I would like to give you a little gift: What Bitcoin Did - The System Cannot Survive What’s Coming | Jeff Booth “You’ve been deceived your entire life.” Jeff Booth returns to the show to break down Bitcoin, AI, Inflation, debt, deflation, and the kind of systemic chaos that could reshape everything people think they know about money. If Jeff is right, we are heading into a period of supply chain shocks, Inflation spikes, mass money printing, job destruction from AI, and a brutal repricing of the global economy. In this episode, Jeff explains why the natural state of the free market is deflation, why Bitcoin is the only real path to agency, why trusting digital credit and custodians could end in disaster, and why most people still cannot see the system they are trapped inside. We also get into whether Strategy and the digital credit thesis are dangerous for Bitcoin, why AI changes everything faster than most people realize, and what a true Bitcoin economy might actually look like. Click here: https://youtu.be/hC-I9YXEP_c Credit: I have used multiple sources! My savings account: Bitcoin. The tool I recommend for setting up a Bitcoin savings plan is **PocketBitcoin**, especially suited for beginners or people who want to invest in Bitcoin with an automated investment plan once a week or monthly. (from now on, full KYC, so be aware) > Use the code SE3997 Get your Bitcoin out of exchanges. Save them on a hardware wallet, run your own node...be your own bank. Not your keys, not your coins. It's that simple. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ Is this post helpful to you? If so, please share it and support my work with a zap. ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃ ⭐ Many thanks⭐ Felipe - Bitcoin Friday! ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃

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Disclaimer: I am still a bit behind on the news each week, but I still want to share these insights with you. In this post, I will share the recap for the period 30.03 - 07.04 On Nostr, I will exclusively share the most significant Bitcoin news. (this note) For those (still) beyond Nostr—friends, family, and colleagues—the complete Weekly Recap will be accessible on my Bitcoin Friday page on Yakihonne. (next note) Enriched with detailed charts, illustrative images, and comprehensive macroeconomic news to provide context and clarity. Happy reading! 🧠Quote(s) of the week: 'Bitcoin is the first truly neutral global monetary base layer, much like the internet is for information. It’s a protocol for unbiased value transfer, free from central manipulation. In a world of fiat noise, Bitcoin is the signal. Choose your foundation wisely.' - Jeff Booth 🧡Bitcoin news🧡 Photos hosted by Azzamo ( https://azzamo.net/) On the 31st of March: ➡️The median home price has tripled since 1980, after adjusting for Inflation. Wages over the same period are up 18%. That one gap explains more about the economy than any jobs report or GDP number ever will. Housing didn't become unaffordable because people got lazier. It became unaffordable because asset prices outpaced wages by a factor that compounds every single year. In 1980, the median home cost 3.9 times the median household income. Today it costs 5 times. A 20% down payment went from $12,740 to over $83,000. The paycheck that's supposed to cover it barely kept pace in real terms over 44 years. This is what currency debasement looks like up close. The dollar has lost over 70% of its purchasing power since 1980. That doesn't show up on a grocery receipt all at once. It shows up over decades in the growing distance between what people earn and what things cost. The generation that bought homes at 3.9x income is telling the generation facing 5x income to work harder. The math doesn't back that up. - TFTC Got Bitcoin? https://cdn.azzamo.media/698daa85f3331f2ba1acf22ee47cf0277ede4ad8bb7f9ae65dca5820cabc5d19 ➡️Here we go again. Dutch Inflation rose to 2.7% in March, according to a flash estimate by Statistics Netherlands. One notable detail: energy prices jumped by 6% — yet this received little attention in the headline narrative. Based on recent trends, the risk of further increases remains real. → Average savings rate in the Netherlands: below 1.30%, according to De Nederlandsche Bank → Inflation: 2.7% and potentially rising → The result: your purchasing power is eroding faster than you think In a world of ultra-low savings rates and rising Inflation, saving is no longer rewarded. And bonds — even for pensions — aren’t much better. - Jeroen Blokland ➡️Google estimates that breaking Bitcoin’s cryptography could require fewer than 500K physical qubits and only 1.2K–1.45K high-quality logical qubits, far below previous estimates in the millions. Taproot may increase the number of vulnerable wallets, as it exposes pub keys.' - Bitcoin News Now hold your horses: TFTC with a great explanation on the matter. "A quantum computer just "broke" Bitcoin. Except it didn't. Not even close. Google Quantum AI published a paper showing that they've reduced the theoretical ECDSA attack to 1,200 logical qubits. They didn't publish the circuits. They didn't run the attack. They published a zero-knowledge proof that their math works, then cited national security. Here's where we actually are. Entangled logical qubits achieved so far: 96 Coherence time: 1-2 seconds Time the attack requires: days Physical qubits needed: 500,000 Largest quantum computer today: 1,200 noisy, non-error-corrected qubits That's a 100,000x coherence gap. It's not a software problem. It's a fundamental engineering problem that nobody has solved. But here's what most people miss. Bitcoin developers aren't waiting for a crisis. They're already shipping. SHRIMPS: post-quantum signatures 3x smaller than NIST standards, built for Bitcoin's block space constraints. BIP-360: a quantum-resistant output type already live on testnet, with BTQ Technologies running transactions through it. The full upgrade could take 7 years. That's why the work started now. The protocol will be ready before the computers are." Satoshi Nakamoto in 2010 on quantum computers: "If it happens gradually, we can still transition to something stronger." ➡️A co-author on Google's quantum paper calls himself a "Bitcoin security researcher." He actually works for the Ethereum Foundation. Then, at the end of his own thread about breaking Bitcoin's cryptography, he casually drops that "Bitcoin PoW is cooked." Totally unbiased research. ➡️'You can't make this up. Germany is debasing its silver coins by 46% because they're getting too expensive. Germany is reducing the silver content of its 35- and 50-euro collector coins, citing volatile precious metal prices and efforts to curb speculation, the finance ministry said. The 35-euro coin will contain 46% less silver, weigh 17g (down from 18g), and have more copper added. Officials say the move is aimed at preventing coins from tracking metal prices or becoming too costly to issue.' - Bitcoin News These are collector coins, not everyday circulating euros. But the principle is the same one that's played out across monetary history. When the intrinsic value of the metal inside a coin rises above what the state wants to pay, the state dilutes the metal. Rome ran this playbook for over 200 years. Nero started cutting the silver content of the denarius around 60 AD, from near-pure down to 90%, then 50%, eventually near zero by the third century. The context was different. The pattern isn't. Silver is surging because of real demand: industrial use, safe-haven buying, and a global flight to hard assets amid war and Inflation. Germany's response isn't to acknowledge that reality. It's to make coins cheaper to produce while keeping the face value the same. You can't debase 21 million. Got Bitcoin? ➡️Price today: $67,795 4 years ago: $45,522 8 years ago: $6,943 12 years ago: $444 The Spiral Chart: https://cdn.azzamo.media/56af458f6b4dd6d6457d086a69460834f43ca4f1ffba583b5a87767bf5b0a96d ➡️Michael Saylor's Strategy is now estimated to have bought over 2,174 BTC today via STRC, 4.8x the daily Bitcoin mining output. ➡️Lukas Ekwueme: 'M2 money supply of G7 countries. This war will lead to more money spent on printing, not less. Don’t sell your Bitcoin or Gold.' https://cdn.azzamo.media/5f470b54ce33469a6ea4831325de692d35904e294031bad077e0d4a14ef44334 On the 1st of April: ➡️Bitcoin has closed its first green month after 5 months of red. ➡️'The Bitcoin Policy Institute just published a paper arguing that Taiwan should hold bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset, specifically as insurance against a Chinese naval blockade. The argument is straightforward. Taiwan holds $577 billion in foreign reserves, almost entirely in US Treasuries and dollar-denominated assets. If China blocks or invades, those reserves become inaccessible. SWIFT transfers get frozen. Gold sitting in foreign vaults can't be repatriated. Traditional reserves fail precisely when they're needed most. Bitcoin doesn't have this problem. It can be held in self-custody, transmitted via satellite, transferred across borders without permission from any bank or government, and converted to value anywhere there's an internet connection, or even without one through mesh networks and radio. The paper draws on real precedents. Ukraine's central bank received $100 million in bitcoin donations within days of Russia's invasion, faster than through any traditional aid channel. The National Bank of Ukraine processed $35 million in bitcoin conversions during the first months of the war. Meanwhile, Russia demonstrated the flip side: when SWIFT was weaponized against it, countries with no alternative settlement infrastructure had no options. Taiwan's situation is arguably more extreme. The island imports 98% of its energy and the majority of its food. A blockade wouldn't just freeze financial assets; it would threaten physical survival. The authors argue that even a modest bitcoin allocation, 5% of reserves (~$29 billion), would give Taiwan a censorship-resistant financial lifeline that no blockade can sever. The paper also notes that Taiwan's semiconductor dominance gives it massive leverage; TSMC produces over 90% of the world's most advanced chips. But that leverage is meaningless if the country can't access its own money during a crisis. This isn't hypothetical anymore. The Strait of Hormuz is currently under selective Iranian control. SWIFT has been weaponized against Russia. Traditional reserves have proven vulnerable to the very scenarios bitcoin was designed to address. Taiwan may be the clearest case study yet for why nation-states need a sovereign asset that doesn't depend on anyone else's permission to use.' Source: https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/geopolitical-economic-and-trade-benefits-of-establishing-a-bitcoin-reserve-for-taiwan ➡️Manufacturing PMI came in at 52.7%. PMI shows the US business cycle. Above 50 = expansion, Below 50 = contraction. Every major Bitcoin bull market aligned with PMI turning up, not a “4-year cycle.” ➡️Data tells us this was the most obvious bear market bottom in Bitcoin history: https://cdn.azzamo.media/ba31660ae8f62f5cbc23296b763fe9665fe597fd9039f493b25bcc156860a4f1 ➡️'BlackRock just amended its S-1 for the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF ($BITA). Here's how it works: The fund holds Bitcoin exposure through IBIT, BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF, then systematically sells call options on top of that position to collect premium income, which gets distributed to investors. You get BTC exposure + a yield check. However, you cap your upside in a rip. In a flat or slow-grind market, you collect income. In a vertical move, you leave gains on the table. It's a covered call strategy, which is common in equity ETFs, now being applied to Bitcoin by the world's largest asset manager. IBIT already holds $70B in BTC, and $BITA is their next layer. No fee or launch date announced yet, but Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas puts the fee over/under at 38bps.' - Bitcoin News ➡️BITCOIN-BACKED MUNICIPAL BONDS ARE HERE New Hampshire is moving forward with a first-of-its-kind $100M Bitcoin-backed municipal bond, using over-collateralized BTC instead of taxpayer backing to fund economic development. The bonds, issued by the state’s Business Finance Authority, are structured as taxable conduit revenue bonds tied to a private borrower rather than public funds. Repayment comes from the borrower or, if needed, liquidation of Bitcoin collateral held in segregated cold storage by BitGo. The borrower must post BTC worth 160% of the bond value, with a mandatory liquidation trigger at 140% loan-to-value to protect investors. One tranche may also offer upside exposure if Bitcoin appreciates. Moody’s assigned a provisional Ba2 rating, citing volatility risk but acknowledging strong collateral safeguards. If finalized, the deal would mark a major step in integrating Bitcoin into regulated municipal finance, positioning it as usable collateral inside traditional capital markets while attracting Bitcoin businesses to the state.' - Bitcoin News ➡️The Journal of Risk and Financial Management just published a Bitcoin price model. $1M by early 2027. $5M by 2031. Peer reviewed. Not an influencer. Not a VC. An academic journal. - Simply Bitcoin ➡️Those who think PMI is irrelevant to what Bitcoin will do next... I remind you: what the PMI looks like overlaid with Bitcoin's power trend. - Sminston With https://cdn.azzamo.media/ad36336266dbdaae6ea836c822a44f57c04738c540c2d7961f8f11b5795c0dc0 ➡️It's actually not that complicated. 1. Printing money is easy and fixes things short-term. So governments always do it. Left or Right. 2. The printed money grows faster than the economy, so it ends up in hard assets. 3. Until Bitcoin, that meant houses, stocks, and gold. But these are not easily movable. You can't zip some Apple shares to your cousin in Mexico. Or your condo in NYC. Or your 3 gold bars. 4. Bitcoin is actually the perfect product-market fit for the money printing problem. And it's working. Perfect Power Law. 1,000,000x since Oct 2010. 5. The power law comes with 80% vol. That means big corrections. But massive returns if you HODL. 6. All other crypto can't compete and are peddling false narratives ("greener", "world computer", "more quantum safe"). Ignore. - Fred Krueger On the 2nd of April: ➡️In Q1 2026, Metaplanet acquired 5,075 BTC, bringing its total holdings to 40,177 BTC, accumulated for $4.18 billion. This puts it ahead of MARA, which recently sold 15,133 BTC and now holds 38,689 BTC. Metaplanet now ranks just behind Jack Mallers’ XXI, which holds 43,514 BTC. - Bitcoin News ➡️Exactly 13 years ago, the Bitcoin price dropped 60% in a single day. They called it "The Great Crash of 2013." Everyone who HODL'ed is up 70,000%. - Bitcoin Teddy ➡️Morgan Stanley Bitcoin ETF launch is imminent. They manage about $9.3 trillion in client assets. ➡️Lyn Alden explains to CNBC why this market is unlike anything we've been used to between 1980 and 2020. We have fiscal dominance, endless dominance, and real performance is lagging. Most market participants aren't ready for the new paradigm. Video: https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/2039723035314257930 Lyn Alden argues that we are moving into a very different macro environment than the one during the 1980–2020 period. In her view, that earlier era was defined by central banks leading the cycle through interest rate policy, falling Inflation, globalization, and steadily declining debt costs. She suggests that this framework is breaking down and being replaced by something more fiscally driven. The key idea is “fiscal dominance”: government spending and deficits increasingly shape economic conditions, while central banks have less effective control over Inflation and growth dynamics than before. In this environment, liquidity support tends to reappear more quickly when markets weaken, reinforcing what she describes as an “endless liquidity” backdrop. This doesn’t mean unlimited money printing, but rather a recurring pattern of intervention to stabilize debt-heavy systems. A related consequence is that asset prices can remain supported, while “real” returns (adjusted for Inflation) may be weaker than they appear on the surface. In other words, markets can rise nominally without necessarily translating into broad gains in purchasing power. Her broader point is that many investors are still positioned for the old regime—where interest rates and monetary policy alone drive cycles—while the interaction between fiscal expansion, high debt levels, and policy constraints increasingly shapes the current system. Whether this truly represents a lasting “new paradigm” is still debated, but it’s a framework gaining attention as post-2008/2010 macro conditions continue to evolve. ➡️Pierre Wunsch, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium, delivered a stark warning: Belgium no longer has the financial capacity to cushion another energy shock. After deploying massive support during the 2022 crisis, fiscal space is now exhausted. Rising deficits, higher costs, and fragile public finances leave “very limited room for maneuver.” Wunsch made clear that broad, government-funded relief is no longer viable. Future support would require difficult tradeoffs, including cutting business tax breaks rather than increasing taxes on individuals. The warning comes as geopolitical tensions rise, particularly around Iran and the broader Middle East. Wunsch cautioned that a prolonged conflict could slow global growth and push Belgium into a technical recession. “If the war continues… it would only be a matter of time before the markets react,” he told lawmakers. The fiscal outlook is already strained. Belgium must find at least €5B to balance its 2026 budget, with Prime Minister Bart De Wever rejecting further large-scale aid after previous “helicopter money” policies.' - Bitcoin News Got Bitcoin? ➡️'Bitcoin’s floor is not static. It climbs with time. BTC: $66.9K Calc. Floor: $65.9K Just 1.5% above it. So even when the price looks flat, the base keeps rising.- David Eng On the 3rd of April: ➡️Kentucky removes anti-self-custody provisions from the Blockchain Digital Asset Act before final approval. The Bill Protects Bitcoin self-custody rights. ➡️Adam Back: “Blockstream has a 20-person applied cryptography/security team working on the quantum issue basically full-time, you can see that from the pace of R&D output, implementations, BIPs. It's just insulting and FALSE to say bitcoin protocol researchers are "not doing anything.” ➡️Riot Platforms discloses selling 3,778 Bitcoin in Q1. ➡️Daniel Batten: "Access to infinite money printing => ability to start stupid wars, financed on credit => oil prices hike => poor people most affected. Bitcoin breaks this ridiculous cycle at the root. It's not just freedom-tech, it is social-justice tech." ➡️Bitcoin News: "44% of Bitcoin's circulating supply is now held at a loss." ➡️Every year, critics say Bitcoin's power law will break. Every year, the R² climbs higher. This chart shows what 15 years of cumulative data looks like when a system is governed by physics rather than sentiment. → The fit quality never declines. Not once. → The exponent β converges from ±0.43 to ±0.030 → Bull runs, crashes, bans, ETFs - none of it shifts the attractor. The confidence interval shrinks exactly as it would for a physical constant being measured with increasing precision. Bitcoin's price exponent is a measurement. - Adam Livingston https://cdn.azzamo.media/19bb7e2e8a74c392a7349ddbad31d04d5168c89fff8861b3c85173c4e951fd61 ➡️Riot Platforms transfers 500 BTC ($34.13M) to an unknown wallet. ➡️I am just going to leave this here: https://cdn.azzamo.media/8811a0635b0f46d42e1f35b2435f98dd036caf36ce1208cbbb433ea93495b677 ➡️BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF has surged to $52 billion in assets under management, holding approximately 782,000 BTC and posting daily trading volumes of 57–75 million shares. - Bitcoin News On the 6th of April: ➡️Rwanda's Central Bank says its citizens should avoid using "crypto-assets" because of "serious financial risks and no recourse in case of loss." Meanwhile, their fiat currency is down 60% since 2010. ➡️Michael Saylor's Strategy announces it purchased 4,871 BTC for $329.9 million ➡️US M2 money supply hits a new all-time high of $22.7 trillion. M2 has tripled since 2008, while the dollar has lost roughly 38% of its purchasing power over the same period. It took 12 months to add another $800 billion to the pile. The line only goes in one direction. Got Bitcoin? On the 7th of April: ➡️This bottom will be studied in universities - Quinten https://cdn.azzamo.media/ba31660ae8f62f5cbc23296b763fe9665fe597fd9039f493b25bcc156860a4f1 ➡️The Global Hashrace: The United States holds first place in global hashrate, with a 37.4% share (~375 EH/s). Russia ranks second at 16.9%, followed by China at 12% after compliance actions in Xinjiang took ~13% of its capacity offline in December 2025. Kyrgyzstan posted 300% YoY and 167% QoQ growth after Parliament approved transparent mining regulations in mid-2025. Paraguay rose 54% YoY to 4.3% of global hashrate, while Laos and Finland each posted 100% YoY growth thanks to cheap hydroelectric power and a favorable climate, respectively. https://cdn.azzamo.media/54a04f4648446c402c18791fdf1c678566ce17ba9c7b3aae9db1d9f35fd37f50 ➡️4-week RSI on Bitcoin has marked the exact bottom the last three times. Up only from here? ➡️Boomers needed 306 hours of minimum wage work to pay for college. Millennials needed 4,459. Gen Z needs 6,200. The game is rigged. - Bitcoin Teddy Got Bitcoin? Okay, one more stat; A 30% loss in US dollar purchasing power since January 2020. This is wreckage. https://cdn.azzamo.media/54a04f4648446c402c18791fdf1c678566ce17ba9c7b3aae9db1d9f35fd37f50 To add more fuel to the fire. With debt high and borrowing costs rising, governments can no longer defer hard fiscal choices. Trust is now essential to reconciling competing priorities, Era Dabla‑Norris and Rodrigo Valdes write in F&D magazine. - IMF Source: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/fandd/issues/2026/03/high-debt-hard-choices-era-dabla-norris ➡️Bitcoin Archive: Capital is rotating out of gold and back into Bitcoin. Gold ETP flows are turning negative, while Bitcoin flows are recovering. Rotation has started. ➡️ Strategy records $14.46B in UNREALIZED losses on its Bitcoin holdings in Q1 2026. - Bitcoin News ➡️Morgan Stanley's spot Bitcoin ETF is expected to begin trading as early as tomorrow. Why is this so important? - 16,000 financial advisors can now recommend Bitcoin - $7.4T in assets - The first spot Bitcoin ETF issued directly by a major U.S. bank - Lowest fee at 0.14% ➡️Charles Schwab says a 1–3% allocation to Bitcoin or Ethereum can reshape portfolio risk. Suggests up to 8.8% Bitcoin allocation in aggressive portfolios at 15% return assumption. ➡️2025 is in the rear view - but the "Retire on Bitcoin" numbers have barely changed. My retirement guide estimates, with a $100k/yr living cost (2026 dollars)... 3.5 - 4.5 BTC will be needed to retire by 2030 for many people. Just pick your age and retirement year. - Sminston With https://cdn.azzamo.media/f3684c348f9431eb281745daf069295fa37e644df6f4374980da110b3b5ac484 > Jeff Swanson: Bitcoin woke me up: Don't trust what you don't control. School programs your ceiling. The media programs your enemies. The Fed programs your savings to disappear. Most people never notice. The water's always been warm. But one thing can't be faked, printed, or debased while you hold it. 21 million. No board of governors. No bailouts. No exceptions. Bitcoin. 🎁If you have made it this far, I would like to give you a little gift: Peter McCormack - How to SURVIVE The "Final Reset" of The Economy | Jeff Booth In this episode, Jeff Booth explains why the natural state of a free market is deflationary and why a debt-based monetary system can’t allow it. We discuss AI as an acceleration event: exponential productivity should make life cheaper, but the system has to create scarcity to keep debt serviceable. They cover how Inflation functions as hidden extraction, why regulation favors monopolies, why politics becomes a fight over who controls broken money, and why AI will intensify centralization, surveillance, and social conflict unless the monetary layer changes. Click here: How to SURVIVE The "Final Reset" of The Economy | Jeff Booth https://youtu.be/lhHKljqRa-M?si=US9esrJLL2Phridr Credit: I have used multiple sources! My savings account: Bitcoin. 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Disclaimer: I am still a bit behind on the news each week, but I still want to share these insights with you. In this post, I will share the recap for the period 23.03 - 30.03 On Nostr, I will exclusively share the most significant Bitcoin news. (this note) For those (still) beyond Nostr—friends, family, and colleagues—the complete Weekly Recap will be accessible on my Bitcoin Friday page on Yakihonne. (next note) Enriched with detailed charts, illustrative images, and comprehensive macroeconomic news to provide context and clarity. Happy reading! 🧠Quote(s) of the week: 'Common wisdom: “No country is going to hand over its monetary policy to an external source like Bitcoin.” Bitcoin will be adopted like gunpowder, nuclear weapons, or the internet. As a nation, you didn’t have to agree with or like gunpowder, nuclear weapons, or the internet. You could ban them. You could avoid them. But over time, when other nations adopt them, they gain an advantage—and you fall behind. The logic is simple game theory: once some nations adopt Bitcoin as a reserve asset or strategic tool, others must follow or accept falling behind economically and geopolitically. Just as failing to adopt gunpowder left medieval powers vulnerable to conquest. Just as nuclear asymmetry created deterrence imperatives during the Cold War. Just as lagging on internet infrastructure meant falling behind in the information-age economy. Adoption happens for survival.' - Jeff Swanson ## 🧡Bitcoin news🧡 Photos hosted by Azzamo ( https://azzamo.net/) Study Bitcoin: "The secret to owning 1 BTC: Ignore the price. Ignore the noise. Just keep stacking. Brick by brick. Sat by sat." On the 23rd of March: ➡️Bitcoin is up 34% against gold since the US-Iran war started 23 days ago. BTC is the new safe-haven asset. I know kinda cherry picking. ➡️Michael Saylor’s Strategy announces new $42 billion plan to buy more Bitcoin. ➡️Strategy has acquired 1,031 BTC for ~$76.6 million at ~$74,326 per bitcoin. As of 3/22/2026, we hodl 762,099 Bitcoin acquired for ~$57.69 billion at ~$75,694 per bitcoin. On the 24th of March: ➡️Bitcoin's whale inflow momentum reaches the second-highest level in history. - Bitcoin News ➡️Shaun Edmondson: 'US Spot BTC ETFs had strong inflows yesterday. Strategy just dropped SEC filings to allow it to buy another $42 billion in BTC - approx 590,000 BTC at today’s price. S1 filings show Morgan Stanley ETF coming soon. We are sub 1 million BTC to be mined in the next 114 years. If you haven’t figured it out yet, I suggest you “get some / get yours” if you can, while you still can.' Extra information by Eric Balchunas on this topic: 'Bitcoin ETFs now $2.5b for the month and one good day away from completely digging out of their YTD flow hole. $IBIT is already there and then some, in the top 2% among all ETFs in YTD flows. Again, incredible fortitude in the face of 40% 6mo price drop and widespread media pile-on. For context, when gold fell 40% in a short time frame about 10 years ago, 1/3 of its investors bailed (not that that's bad either; that's normal). BTC is just abnormal. ➡️Bitcoin News: 'Bitcoin is holding a key on-chain support level: The 2023 realized price ($63.7K). This level has repeatedly acted as support during corrections, both in 2023 and again after the recent 50% drawdown to $60K. If this level breaks, the next major support sits at the aggregate realized price ($54.3K), a level historically lost only in full bear markets. Meanwhile, newer cohorts are underwater: • 2026 realized price: $77K • 2025: $96.4K • 2024: $81.5K With BTC just above $70K, recent buyers are feeling pressure while long-term holders remain in profit. The structure remains intact for now.' ➡️Capital B acquires 44 Bitcoin (€2.7M), bringing its total holdings to 2,888 BTC. - Bitcoin News ➡️Bernstein says Bitcoin to hit $150K this year and has likely bottomed. - Bitcoin Archive ➡️Jeff Swanson: 'Bitcoin continues its collapse, ultimately going to zero. You can really see it here on this chart.' ➡️Dr. Jan Wüstenfeld: 'Last year, BlackRock released a chart showing that Bitcoin performs well following geopolitical shocks, a chart that has been widely shared, including me. Using the Geopolitical Risk Index by Caldara and Iacoviello (2022) and extreme GPR spikes (2 SD above the 90-day mean) since 2017, the picture is less clear. It is more of a coin flip. 60-day returns: 55% positive, 45% negative. Median: +3.8%. Bitcoin doesn't systematically hedge geopolitical risk. It doesn't systematically suffer from it either.' On the 26th of March: ➡️'Gold goes to zero against Bitcoin. Since 2020, the S&P 500 has lost 1.9% per year to gold and 19.7% per year to Bitcoin. If you'd held SPY instead of gold since 2020, you lost 30%. If you'd held SPY instead of Bitcoin, you lost 87%. Gold eats equities. Bitcoin eats gold.' - Adam Livingston https://cdn.azzamo.media/8fe5d72964e83a8dcb349f99bfe60ec929526bca70311ee2920e03d81bf703cb ➡️Most disappointing cycle in history? -Quinten Personally, I don't think it is disappointing. Yes, with a fiat mindset it is. But Bitcoin is exactly where it needs to be. Growing...the network, adoption worldwide ➡️Daniel Batten: 'One of the world's most respected LGFTE (Landfill Gas To Energy) specialists with 20+ years and 100+ landfill project experience just said that Bitcoin mining is the only profitable solution for mitigating half the world's landfill methane emissions. Probably nothing' ➡️Bitcoin News: Coinbase and Fannie Mae partner with Better Home & Finance to launch Bitcoin-backed mortgages for U.S. homebuyers. Borrowers can pledge Bitcoin or USD Coin as collateral for down payments, keeping their assets and avoiding triggering taxable sales. The loans are structured as conforming mortgages backed by Fannie Mae, meaning they follow standard underwriting rules and carry the same protections as traditional home loans. The product targets everyday buyers locked out by down payment constraints. Better says 41% of U.S. families can’t purchase homes due to a lack of liquid cash, despite holding savings in other assets. Rising interest rates and high home prices have tightened affordability. A buyer targeting a $400K home may struggle to raise $40K in cash without selling assets or navigating tax and legal hurdles. Coinbase says the offering brings crypto into mainstream housing finance, calling it “as American as apple pie.” ➡️TFTC: 'Every American who spends bitcoin is technically breaking the law. Today, that might start to change. The Bitcoin Policy Institute is bringing Coinbase, River, and Block to Capitol Hill to push for a de minimis tax exemption on small bitcoin transactions. Right now, buying a coffee with Bitcoin is a taxable event. You have to calculate your cost basis, determine gain or loss, and report it to the IRS. Nobody does this. The same exemption already exists for foreign currency; it just doesn't apply to Bitcoin yet. What matters is who's in the room. Coinbase, River, and Block sitting at the same table on the Hill is the kind of unified industry front this fight has needed. Credit to BPI for building a coalition that bridges Bitcoin-native companies and major exchanges. If this gets done, it flips how the U.S. government classifies Bitcoin. It stops being treated purely as a speculative asset and is recognized for what it was designed to be: peer-to-peer electronic cash. That's the foundation for a Bitcoin circular economy in the largest economy on Earth.' ➡️'MARA sells 15,133 BTC for $1.1B to fund a major balance sheet move and fund AI pivot. The company repurchased ~$1B in convertible notes at a ~9% discount to par, reducing its convertible debt by ~30%. Despite the scale of selling, the Bitcoin price held firm, with demand fully absorbing the supply. CEO Fred Thiel said the move strengthens MARA’s balance sheet and expands flexibility as it moves into energy and AI infrastructure.'- Bitcoin News on the 27th of March: ➡️Bitcoin News: Every country’s money supply is up 1000’s of % since the US left the gold standard in 1971. But Canada takes the cake. https://cdn.azzamo.media/5d550d5df6e3e38ea0dabe39148818f87a5e80d3e7b7eb67274c582955fe6b5c Anyway, got Bitcoin? ➡️Daniel Batten: 'We now have official EEP data that shows Bitcoin mining has nearly doubled Ethiopia’s annual net transmission grid expansion rate. Even more importantly, it has catalyzed unprecedented new construction activity, never before reported by EEP at this scale. Consider this context: delivering power to rural Africa, alongside combating youth unemployment, is one of the two biggest political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Bitcoin mining has just demonstrated it can be a viable solution for one of them. Let's dig in. Ethiopia made $220 million from Bitcoin mining in 2024/25, which is expected to increase to $312 million this year (source: https://capitalethiopia.com/2025/11/02/eep-ends-low-cost-tariff-for-cryptocurrency-miners-2/ This electricity would otherwise have been wasted. Why? Although Ethiopia has the capacity to generate 6 Gigawatts from the new dam, Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) hasn't yet built the transmission lines to supply all that electricity generated. So, in the meantime, the dam authorities sell electricity to Bitcoin mining companies. These electricity sales to Bitcoin miners were 67% of EEP's total Foreign Exchange revenue last year, vastly improving profitability. source: https://birrmetrics.com/ethiopia-electric-power-revenue-hits-br75-4-bln-amid-surge-in-data-mining-demand/ What do they do with that unexpected extra profit? EEP has stated repeatedly that the revenue from Bitcoin mining is used to support "infrastructure expansion" and "rural electrification" source: https://eep.com.et/?article=ethiopias-energy-strategy-a-responsible-balance-between-domestic-priorities-and-emerging-opportunities News channel Al Jazeera recently confirmed, "Ethiopia doesn't yet have the distribution network to take electricity to 1/2 the population...The idea is the fees paid by the Bitcoin miners will go towards funding the expansion of the grid." source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mqie7bWQHPk Significantly, EEP's own data shows that revenue from Bitcoin mining supported EEP's 2024/25 fiscal year: * 28,571 km of new power lines built, * 8,700 substation bays installed. Source: https://birrmetrics.com/ethiopia-electric-power-revenue-hits-br75-4-bln-amid-surge-in-data-mining-demand/ Bitcoin mining revenue has already almost doubled EEP's rate of energized network buildout from ~358 km/year average to +662 km last year. But more important is what is in the imminent pipeline: the 28,571 km of new power lines is larger than the entire size of their grid! source: https://eep.com.et/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/fact-and-bierf-pdf.pdf Let's be clear, we cannot say that "Ethiopia builds more than its whole grid in a year" because not all of that new capacity has been fully energized yet, so that would be an apples-for-oranges comparison. But it is still an unprecedented rate of new construction. The good news is that the bulk of this infrastructure, constructed but not yet fully energized, is not “waiting years”; it is currently in active commissioning and is expected to come online progressively over the next 12–18 months. Source: Birr Metrics (EEP’s 2025/26 budget announcement) https://birrmetrics.com/electric-power-plans-251-billion-birr-budget-for-2025-26-fy-majority-self-financed/ When that new network is fully energized, the increase in the speed of energized network buildout will not be 2x. It will be substantially higher, potentially more than 10-20x the historical average, as the backlog comes online. Read that last sentence again. A forecast 10-20x faster buildout of Ethiopia's electrical grid. Rural electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa is a key strategic focus for over 20 global institutions and development banks, including the UN, the World Bank, IRENA, the African Development Bank, and the Rockefeller Foundation. It is even explicitly one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 7), where Target 7.1 calls for “universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services by 2030.” Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 85% of the world’s people still without electricity (mostly in rural areas), making this one of the biggest global priorities. How Ethiopia is achieving this should be one of the biggest stories at the UN right now. Far from “taking renewable power away” from people, Bitcoin mining’s use of otherwise wasted renewable energy is catalyzing the accelerated delivery of electricity to rural Africa. Bitcoin mining has created a pragmatic solution to an issue that has plagued powerful global institutions for decades. If you are still gaslighting Bitcoin mining in 2026 (based on early studies that have since been widely debunked), you are no longer just uninformed. You are perpetuating harmful myths that slow down power delivery to people living without electricity.' ➡️GameStop discloses that it pledged almost all its Bitcoin ($325M) as collateral on Coinbase as part of a covered-call strategy, without selling any. ➡️Joe Consorti: 'Bitcoin is at the same price that it was 4.5 years ago, the 4th-longest period in history. The median 18-month forward return from this point is 214%. Every time BTC has gone flat for 3+ years, what felt like wasted time turned out to be a launchpad.' ➡️Morgan Stanley's spot Bitcoin ETF will charge the CHEAPEST fee on the market, even cheaper than BlackRock's ETF. With a 0.14% fee, the lowest fee rate in the industry. 'The firm just filed an amended S-1 with the SEC for a spot Bitcoin ETF called the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust, ticker MSBT. The fee is 0.14%, making it the cheapest Bitcoin ETF ever proposed in the US. That undercuts Grayscale's Mini Trust by a basis point and BlackRock's IBIT by 11 basis points. The pricing is deliberate. At 0.14%, no advisor in their network can argue the fee is too high to recommend. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas put it bluntly: "They are the ultimate gatekeepers of rich boomer money." This is also the first time a traditional bank has filed for a spot Bitcoin ETF. BlackRock and Fidelity are asset managers. Morgan Stanley is a bank. That's a different level of institutional commitment. They've tapped Coinbase and Bank of New York Mellon as custodians, applied for a national trust bank charter to custody digital assets directly, and separately filed for a staked Ether ETF and a Solana ETF. None of this came out of nowhere. Last October, Morgan Stanley began recommending a 2 to 4 percent crypto allocation for clients and opened access to bitcoin funds in IRAs and 401(k)s. The ETF is just the next logical step. Wall Street isn't debating bitcoin anymore. They're fighting over who gets to sell it.' -TFTC ➡️'In case you don't realize what just happened: MARA sold 15,000 BTC, Bitdeer sold all of its BTC, Riot is selling BTC from treasury to fund data center buildouts, Auradine just rebranded to Velaura AI. The biggest miners are leaving the game. Not necessarily because it's broken, but because AI pays more per megawatt. Think about what this means: These aren't small players. They find thousands of blocks and move the global hash rate. These are the people CLOSEST to bitcoin's monetary properties. They run the machines and understand the halving math. They know the supply schedule better than anyone, and they're choosing to sell. When they redirect capital and infrastructure toward AI, that hashrate comes offline. Unless equivalent hashrate fills the gap, difficulty drops. It doesn't appear the gap will be filled in the near term because they're leaving for better margins elsewhere. Lower difficulty = higher margins for every miner who stays. And there's a second layer here. If the Strait of Hormuz stays closed into April, energy prices climb. Oil-dependent miners get hit hardest. This might be the best setup small/medium miners with stable PPA's have seen since the 2021 China mining ban.' Billy Boone On the 28th of March: ➡️Bitcoin News: 'CoinShares reports that Bitcoin mining is tightening, with 15–20% of miners now unprofitable due to a post-halving low hashprice of around $28 PH/s/day in February 2026.' On the 29th of March: ➡️The World Uncertainty Index just hit 105,000, the highest level in recorded history. Higher than Covid. Higher than 9/11. Higher than the Iraq War and the Global Financial Crisis combined. - TFTC In times of uncertainty, you need an asset that is predictable, immutable, and certain: Bitcoin. 'The decline in uncertainty following the Covid-19 panic peak helped fuel a ~10x Bitcoin rally (from $7k to $70k' -Jesse Myers On the 30th of March: ➡️The number of businesses accepting Bitcoin as payment went parabolic today as Square enabled automatic BTC payments. ➡️If you care about financial privacy, then this is probably the most important research you will read all year. The Dutch Court of Audits has released a paper on the effectiveness of AML measures, and lo and behold, it found no evidence that AML actually works. These laws are used to de-bank law-abiding citizens, throw developers in prison, surveil every transaction you make, and collect your identity in central databases that end up hacked. Governments have built a complete and total surveillance dragnet around your finances under the guise of AML, and this Dutch Court just said the quiet part out loud: AML is discriminatory, overly expensive, and we have no proof of it stopping crime.' - L0laL33tz Soure: https://www.rekenkamer.nl/documenten/2026/03/11/gevolgen-groot-opbrengsten-onbekend---onderzoek-naar-de-anti-witwasaanpak-in-de-banke ➡️You, younger generations, are just lazy. Also, Boomers: Bought a house with an $8,200 down payment.'- Bitcoin News Anyway? Got Bitcoin! ➡️El Salvador has added more Bitcoin to their national reserves every single day through this bear market, no matter the price. - Bitcoin Magazine ➡️Adam Livingston: 'This is the most devastating chart in finance. 1971 was when your future was heisted from you. From 1917 to 1971, the Top 1% and the Bottom 90% grew together. Same economy. Same trajectory. Then Nixon closed the gold window. The money printer turned on. And the two lines never touched again. When you decouple money from scarcity, you don't create wealth; you create a funnel. Every new dollar printed flows to those closest to the spigot... Wall Street, mega-banks, asset holders, while the bottom 90% watches their purchasing power slowly suffocate. This is the Cantillon Effect playing out over 54 years in one brutal picture. The Top 1% gained +265% in real income. The Bottom 90%? +175%. That 90-point gap is architecture. Fiat currency manufactures inequality. The rate cuts, every QE program, and every "emergency" liquidity injection. Each one is a wealth transfer dressed up as economic policy. Your grandparents could raise a family on one income because they lived under sound money. Your generation can't afford a house with two incomes because you don't. The chart doesn't lie. The divergence began exactly when the dollar became an IOU backed by nothing but trust in the people who benefit most from printing more of it. 1971 was the heist. This chart is the receipt.' Got Bitcoin? ➡️'Square auto-enabled Bitcoin Lightning payments across 4 million U.S. merchant terminals. No opt-in required. Sellers receive USD by default. This is the most significant Bitcoin payments infrastructure move since the Lightning Network launched. Every coffee shop, barber, and food truck on Square can now accept sats over Lightning at zero fees through 2026. Jack Dorsey's Block didn't ask for permission. They flipped the switch.' -TFTC ➡️ZeroHedge: 'With all other risk (and unrisk) assets sliding during the Iran war, bitcoin remains largely unscathed, and despite giving up some recent gains it's still higher than when the bombs started.' 🎁If you have made it this far, I would like to give you a little gift: Peter McCormack - How to SURVIVE The "Final Reset" of The Economy | Jeff Booth In this episode, Jeff Booth explains why the natural state of a free market is deflationary and why a debt-based monetary system can’t allow it. We discuss AI as an acceleration event: exponential productivity should make life cheaper, but the system has to create scarcity to keep debt serviceable. They cover how Inflation functions as hidden extraction, why regulation favors monopolies, why politics becomes a fight over who controls broken money, and why AI will intensify centralization, surveillance, and social conflict unless the monetary layer changes. Click here: How to SURVIVE The "Final Reset" of The Economy | Jeff Booth https://youtu.be/lhHKljqRa-M?si=US9esrJLL2Phridr Credit: I have used multiple sources! My savings account: Bitcoin. The tool I recommend for setting up a Bitcoin savings plan is **PocketBitcoin**, especially suited for beginners or people who want to invest in Bitcoin with an automated investment plan once a week or monthly. (from now on, full KYC, so be aware) > Use the code SE3997 Get your Bitcoin out of exchanges. Save them on a hardware wallet, run your own node...be your own bank. Not your keys, not your coins. It's that simple. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ Is this post helpful to you? If so, please share it and support my work with a zap. ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃ ⭐ Many thanks⭐ Felipe - Bitcoin Friday! ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃