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https://www.theblock.co/post/357299/musks-x-joining-forces-with-prediction-platform-polymarket
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It is 09:27AM   Pacific Daylight Time. It is the sixth day of the sixth month of twenty '20 '5, and this is episode 11 d zero   of Bitcoin.   And,   well,   apparently the markets have recovered from the divorce.   Because, you know, we're Trump and Elon throwing plates at each other all day yesterday on the global stage.   We're gonna   not have to talk about that. Thank God. Why? Because we've got other fish to fry like   Switzerland   ratting out your crypto to 74   countries.   Yeah. I know. I said the word crypto. I'm sorry, but that's that's gonna be part of the news. And then there's Apple and Airbnb   and X. Apparently, they've all caught   stablecoin   fever.  

Saylor has upgraded his stackathon.   We'll get into that one. Meanwhile,   there's published audited Bitcoin denominated   financials out there. There's a Twitter OG that stacked a hundred million dollars in BTC,   and Romania put Bitcoin ATMs all over its post offices.   And then we're going to talk about BTC   pay server   and why it's still one of the most   important   projects   in the space.   I'm telling you, you're gonna wanna stick around because today's episode is brought to you by the Circle P vendor of the day Leathermint,   maker of beautiful hand stitched leather wallets tough enough to outlive your keys, your genes, and   probably your life. Let's   get into it, shall we?  

We're gonna start with this Switzerland.   You know, there used to be a time when people trusted Switzerland. You know, that's why they have Swiss bank accounts.   Right? You know, the Swiss. They you could keep your money over in Switzerland, and they wouldn't tell a soul.   It was private. It was not public, and they did not really work with any other world governments.   Well, I you know, that Switzerland   died a long time ago   because Helen Partz   is telling us a different story this morning.   Switzerland   has green lighted the sharing of crypto   tax information   with not one, not two, not three,   but 74   separate   nations.  

Switzerland is moving forward with plans to automatically   hell, it's gonna be automatic, ladies and gentlemen. They were going to automatically share   your crypto related data   with 74   partner countries, including The United Kingdom and, of course,   all of the European Union member states.   The Federal Council, the government of Switzerland, has adopted a bill to enable   the automatic exchange of information on crypto with partner countries the council announced today, June.   The proposal   also suggests sharing the data with most of the G20 countries   The measure excludes for now The United States, Saudi Arabia and China   according to a Twitter post by the Swiss Federal Government   The bill is currently under discussion in parliament, and if approved, the   AEOI   framework for crypto assets would take effect on January   2026.  

The new proposal follows the federal council's dispatch on the international and national   legal basis for   the AEOI   concerning crypto assets   adopted February   2025,   and AEOI is the automatic exchange of information,   AEOI.   That's   just so you know. Anyway, during   a meeting on June,   the council adopted   the dispatch   on the AEOI approval targeting the first exchange of crypto data taking place   in the year 2027   and prior   to the actual exchange of data on crypto assets, the federal council proposed   to review   whether the partner states with which the aEOI   has been activated   continue to fulfill   these standards requirements. Well, quote, to this end,   the existing review mechanism   for the aEOI   on financial account information should in the future also cover the aEOI   concerning crypto assets which requires the corresponding federal decree   to be amended accordingly, the council said. I don't know. It sounds like suit speak to me. But   in the announcement,   the federal council stressed   that an AEOI   should only take place if the partner states are interested in exchanging information with Switzerland.  

You scratch my back, and I scratch your back. The states also have to fulfill the requirements of the crypto asset reporting framework or CARF, c a r f, developed by the Organization   for Economic Cooperation and Development, which is also known as the OECD.   The acronyms, people, stop. Stop with the acronyms. The council noted that the EU will implement the AEOI   on crypto assets as part of the eighth update   of the directive   on administrative   core   cooperation,   another acronym,   d a c eight.   People.   Swear to God, the directive   applies to countries that do not yet comply with the   OECD   crypto reporting standard across all EU member states, quote,   affected providers of crypto services from Switzerland   would have   a direct reporting obligation   in European Union member states from that point on, and this will continue until Switzerland implements the ECHR,   Jesus,   with all EU member states   according to the Federal Council.  

Adopting crypto a e o I will help Switzerland meet its international tax transparency   commitments,   strengthen the rep reputation of its financial sector,   and create a level playing field for local crypto firms. Quote, Switzerland,   therefore,   has a significant interest in being integrated into this network and implementing the AEOI on crypto assets from 2026   onward,   especially since it is likely that Switzerland   will receive tax relevant data on crypto assets from partner states,   the council   stated.   Yeah. I love where it says this one.   Let's see here. Where was it? Oh, yes.  

According to the federal council, adopting crypto   a e o I will help Switzerland meet   tax transparency commitments   and strengthen the reputation of its financial sector. I'm sorry, but back in the eighties, there was no such thing as a stronger financial sector   than Switzerland. Yeah. I I know. I know what you're saying. No. New York and London. I I get that.   But is   the the reputation   of Switzerland has been nothing but harmed   in the financial sector by them basically just given up   and losing their spine as well as their testicular   sack. I   this whole country   used to be where   every other   country went to say, you know what? I don't want anybody knowing about what I'm doing.  

I mean, honestly,   why is it that we continuously think that if you don't want somebody knowing what you're doing that you're obviously a criminal?   Why have we fallen into that standard?   Is it possible that we've been programmed   by media and propaganda, which that's all media is that day or this day as far as I can tell,   to think that way. To think that if you don't want somebody watching you take a piss in the urinal that it's it that it's not that that you don't want somebody seeing your private parts, it's that you're clearly a terrorist.   You're clearly moving   children in a sex trafficking operation across borders for very wealthy individuals.  

It's clear that you're monitoring   money. It's clear that you are on drugs. It is clear that you sell drugs to little children in the school yard.   Just because I don't want somebody watching me take a piss   does not mean that I'm a criminal.   And that goes all the way up to, I got a hundred million dollars. I don't want anybody knowing that I got a hundred million dollars.   Maybe I've already paid taxes on it. Maybe I've done my bit for king and country.   Why do you need to know every single thing that I do?   It   and again,   the if you if I was asking this question to somebody like Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren, she would reply, and I swear to God she would make this reply, it's because you're clearly engaged in criminal behavior,   or you will have the chance to engage in criminal behavior.  

And, honestly, when you are a when we have a bifurcated   system as we do,   where governments   look at their citizenry   as nothing but a band of criminals, and they don't really think that. It's just   it's where it's in their interest to make you think that they think that. They, honestly, they don't give a shit. But   I feel bad   that when I grew up as a kid,   you could always trust Switzerland to basically, you know,   be your best friend financially,   and that hasn't been true   for years.   And the data train   keeps on rolling   because   Musk's x is joining forces with the prediction platform,   Polymarket.  

Oh, lord have mercy. This is RT Watson writing for the block dot c o.   In what could prove to be the platform's biggest foray into crypto yet,   the Elon Musk owned x said on Friday that it will be working with the prediction market platform,   Polymarket.   Quote, we're joining forces with Polymarket   as our official prediction market partner, the official x account said, and opposed to its social media platform used by hundreds of millions of users. And on Polymarket,   users can wager on the outcome of events by placing bets using, you know, cryptocurrency.   And according to the release   shared by the block or shared with the block by Polymarket, the   the platform will use grok   and relevant ex posts for real time annotations on Polymarket.  

Pause.   Do you remember?   Do you remember? I I brought I brought this to you a couple of weeks   ago. X is has become they announced it, and I can't remember exactly what the announcement was, but it just it just dawned on me. What we're reading here is the very first instantiation   of the fact that they are scraping your data.   Again, you know,   Twitter or x or dead bird or whatever you wanna call it, a couple of weeks ago, they announced something.   And I can't remember exactly what it was, but they were essentially saying that all of your tweets are going to be accessible by Grok. We already knew that was going to occur or that that had already occurred.   I mean, any you know, there's no way that you could trust somebody to say no. Well, they you gotta wait for them to make the announcement that they're going to do it. No. They   Twitter was always doing that when when they installed Grok,   but they just made it basically, they just canonized it a couple of weeks ago, and this is the first instance.  

Polymarket,   at least as far as they are publicly, you know, willing to attest to. Anyway, quote, combining PolyMarkets accurate, unbiased, and real time prediction market probabilities with Grok's analysis of x's real time insights   will enable us to provide contextualized   data driven insights   to millions of Polymarket users around the world instantaneously,   said Shane Copeland,   founder and CEO   of Polymarket.   Musk   has also previously sought to glorify the power of prediction markets, particularly   Polymarket, quote,   Trump now leading Kamala by 3% in betting markets, most accurate than polls,   as actual money is on the line, Musk posted to Twitter last October during the lead up to the US presidential election. Ultimately,   poly market users favored Trump winning the election, and those who bet on it were proven correct. Shortly after the election,   Chainalysis estimated that a French poly market whale had profited by   $80,000,000   betting on the US election   with a strong focus on the Trump Harris race.  

The creation of new markets on the platform reached an all time high of over 7,000   new prediction markets launched in April alone.   This represented   a 20% increase from the previous month on the heels of attracting a high volume of people interested in US presidential elections.   The platform's active users   users surpassed 450,000   during January   but have since experienced a steady decline quote   fewer active addresses are trading on poly market even as market creation explodes which could indicate a shift toward a more concentrated user base of poly market creators the block previously reported   it remains to be seen   what shape the x slash poly market partnership   will take and how much overlap there will be between crypto and the social media platform. But   as x has long been the most popular social media platform among crypto users, traders, and thought leaders,   there has been   long been speculation   or belief that the company would eventually embrace crypto in some form.  

Musk, although closely linked to Dogecoin, has so far steered clear of any direct involvement with crypto related ventures. However,   earlier this year, when announced X Money, a service that will allow users to transfer funds from digital wallets to bank accounts and peer to peer payments, some suggested that the initiative might eventually lead to the platform fully embracing   crypto.   Did did you see what what   Trump truth doubt on his truth social platform?   He was making fun of x or,   x. He was making fun of Elon   dumping all of Tesla's well, not all of Tesla's Bitcoin, but most of Tesla's Bitcoin, if you remember that. But it was Trump on his own platform basically making fun of Elon and mentioning Bitcoin by name. He was saying something like,   he had, like I don't know. He was, like, spineless and and sold all his all his Bitcoin like a little bitch or something like that. I can't remember exactly what Trump said, but it was it was kinda funny. Anyway,   it does not matter. I I still   don't think that Elon is gonna be smart enough just like Meta and Amazon and Microsoft. None of these guys are gonna be smart enough. They think that they're gonna be able   to take over the market   with their own hands by doing something different when all they really have to do is buy Bitcoin,   it doesn't real honestly, it doesn't really matter.  

They're probably gonna end up getting into stable coin.   It it that   is just seems there's   it it's like being addicted to the dollar.   And if you're if you're trying to break your addiction to heroin, what do you do?   You get on methadone.   So stablecoins are sort of like the methadone trying to get off the United States dollar, but you're still addicted. It's it's still activating the same opiate sensors. Right? It's just doing it in either a slightly different class of opiate sensors or it's just not as strong or it doesn't last as long whatever it is the the the thought is is that methadone will help you kick heroin and I guess probably in a few cases it has   but it's still an addiction.  

Right?   Stablecoin   fever   is still an addiction.   You're you're be you're still addicted to the dollar, you're trying to get off the dollar, but you're not ever gonna get off the dollar. You're you're going to be addicted to something.   But stablecoin   fever with circle soaring another 40%.   Apple and x   are among those reportedly wanting in   according to Helene Braun   from CoinDesk   who says that Apple Airbnb,   Google, and Elon Musk's x are holding early discussions with crypto companies   about integrating stablecoin   into their payment systems   according to people familiar with the matter who spoke with Fortune magazine.  

The tech giant sees stablecoins as a way to cut transaction costs and streamline international payments.   And stablecoins, as you know, are digital tokens   that are pegged to fiat currencies like the United States dollar, offering a bridge between crypto infrastructure and traditional finance. And in 2024,   they facilitated more than $27,600,000,000,000   in transactions.   Jesus.   2024,   '20 '7 point '6 trillion. That's with a t. Not an m, not a b, but a t.   $27,600,000,000,000   in transactions.   That's more than Visa and Mastercard combined   according to a report from   the World Economic Forum.  

Boy, I bet they choked on that shit.   Anyway, stablecoins have been fast growing a fast growing area of interest for traditional finance,   and it appears to be exploding even further following stablecoin issuer Circle's gangbuster   IPO on Thursday,   where shares   more than doubled   from an already   raised   offering price, and they're higher by another 40%   today.   Oh, god.   Y'all just made Jeremy Allaire, one of the early enemies of Bitcoin,   filthy   rich, as if he wasn't rich already.   But, guys,   anybody who bought Circle,   you just empowered one of the earliest enemies of Bitcoin.  

Anyway, just saying.   According to Fortune,   Apple has reportedly been in talks with crypto companies since January to explore incorporating stablecoins   into Apple Pay and its wider payment infrastructure.   Meanwhile,   X is in discussions with Stripe to potentially enable stablecoin based transactions.   Airbnb   is exploring stablecoins as a way to reduce the cut it pays to card networks like Visa and Mastercard.   Kiss those two guys goodbye.   One crypto executive told Fortune that the home rental giant has been in talks with Worldpay. Oh, god. Worldpay   since the beginning of twenty twenty five.  

Political shifts, primarily United States president Donald Trump's return to the office has made adopting crypto less risky, yada yada yada. And some analysts predict that the stable coin market could hit $2,000,000,000,000   by 2028.   '1 of the key tailwinds,   the expected passage of the Genius Act, is a bill that would establish regulatory clarity on such things as stable coins.   Okay. So   I know that there's gonna be a lot of peep there's a lot of people crying on,   well, on on on x. I've been like, I have been on x quite a bit lately. It's not that I'm getting off of Nostr. It's just that   every time shit hits the fan,   one of the reasons I go to Nostr is so that I don't have to listen to the shit hitting the fan.  

But sometimes I really need to find out what the hell is going on. And so I run over you know, I'll go over to Twitter and just kinda scan it for a few minutes and find out, oh, this is what's going on. Oh, or that's what's going on. But Nostra is my safe haven.   Nostril is where I can talk to people about building things. Nostril is where I can read people talking to other people about building things. Nostril is where I go if   I really need a good shot in the arm of good vibes, good feelings.   I mean, it's it is it is a haven.   Noster is a haven.  

And if I want to trudge through the sewer that is x, that's still my choice,   and I do so.   And I can tell you this.   Yesterday,   while   Trump and Elon were having a public divorce   and the Bitcoin market was going down, we lost I think we went from $1.00 6 to   sub 100. I think we hit, like, a hundred thousand 500 or something like that.   And it it's I   people that that I used to think were pretty solid Bitcoiners are just   just losing their ever loving minds.   But these same people have been losing their ever loving minds about stablecoins   forever. They're going, oh my god. We missed the boat. Bitcoin missed the boat. Bitcoin is not gonna be used for payments. Let me tell you something.  

When you've got something like Bitcoin,   it doesn't mean that I'm I'm not gonna advocate for not, spending your Bitcoin. I'm also not gonna advocate   for you must,   you must spend your Bitcoin.   It's up to you, man. You do whatever the hell you want, but I'm telling you, you've got a rock   solid   form   of time savings is is really what we're getting at. Something you convert your time into that you can save   and doesn't doesn't, like, erode the time that you spent getting the getting the thing. In our case, we'll we'll work for a paycheck. And if we save that paycheck, it it erodes in purchasing power, which means that the money is being stolen from us. That can't happen with Bitcoin.   Why is it that that anybody expected   that there wasn't going to be a transformer   in between   the hardest asset ever devised on the face of this planet   and regular commerce.  

Of course, there was going to be a transformer. Why am I calling it a transformer? If you know how a transformer works,   where you have step up and step down transformers,   and what does that mean? If I'm taking in a 10,000   volts   and God knows how many amps and watts and stuff from a high power transmission line, I'm not going to plug that right into your house   it will burn it to the ground it will defry every circuit   inside your house starting with your breaker box   it will burn everything it touches   That voltage, that   all of that has to be stepped down   into something that is easily   digestible   by municipal   power grids,   like   440   volts,   240   volts,   110   volts, and, of course, I'm talking about voltages here in The United States. In Europe, they're different.  

Right?   And the way that it does that is it   you use one coil with the radically   huge amounts of voltage coming through   and you wrap a coil around like a like like a a steel or a iron post or whatever metal they're using and you set it inside of a can And then you wrap another coil, but a different   a different times around, you know, you coil like, I don't know. Let's say you coil   around the 10,000,   volt pole, like, 10 times. And then around the other pole, you coil it a different amount of times.   The mag the magnetic field that is induced by the 10,000   volts wrapped around you know, in in that coil wrapped around that pole   induces   elect   electron flow in the other coil.  

And they're not touching each other. They're actually separated by   electrically   neutral fluid.   And it's just it's just a magnetic field. And it's transmitting   the the energy   across that fluid and inducing electron flow   in the other pole. But since there's a different amount of coilage wrapped around a pole,   you get a different voltage and it steps it down. You can also step it up, but you step it down   so that the power is easily digestible.   That's what I think stablecoins   could do.   They will and are being bastardized   to   export United States debt to the rest of the world, but that's a completely different story.  

It doesn't mean that stablecoins are inherently evil.   It depends on what   the tool is used for, and that is a decision made by humans, and many humans suck ass.   They just do. They're shitbags. I can't stop them from doing that kind of thing.   So just   understand   that it's not going to devalue Bitcoin.   The use of stablecoin is tied to fiat currency.   At one point or another,   stablecoin will probably be fully backed by Bitcoin and or gold, maybe. I don't know, but definitely Bitcoin.   But that's not gonna happen today.   Right? But everybody crying about stablecoins taking the place of what Bitcoin was supposed to be   really needs to take a deep breath and understand what are we dealing with.  

Do do you really want to plug 10,000 volts   into   your wall outlet to charge your iPhone?   Probably not.   So I know that that's going to be that's going to be a very, very, very difficult pill for people to swallow.   But I got a gut feeling that we may,   in years to come,   be relatively   thankful   that we had this transformer between   the actual value of Bitcoin   and the rest of the world's commerce.   I'm I I know. It's everybody's gonna hate me for it. It's okay. I can take it. I'm a grown person. So   Circle p is open for business. We've been talking about money. Where do you put your money? You put it in a wallet or at least if you're dealing with fiat cash and credit cards and stuff like that, that will be replaced by something else. But for the meantime, if you're still dealing in fiat cash that you carry around with you because you're gonna, I don't know, pay for a burger or a shake or something like that somewhere, you may want a really good wallet to carry around with you. And my friend over at the leathermint.com   wallets, that is the leathermint.com.  

He makes wallets. He makes belts. He makes all kinds of stuff. But right now, I'm looking at   the leathermint.com   forward slash wallets. And I gotta tell you, man, these things are beautiful,   beautiful wallets.   Beautiful leather.   Absolutely gorgeous leather. Great leather color combinations,   but it's really it's really the stitching that makes a wallet last.   If you're   if you're like me and you use a wallet, you've already been through several.   This wallet, the way it's built   and what it's built from is gonna last you a lifetime and you can pay for it in Bitcoin because if you're not selling your goods and services in bit for Bitcoin, you're not inside the circle p. The circle p is here to bring plebs with goods and services   to other plebs just like you who might want to buy their goods and services.  

When you support the leathermint.com   by buying one of his wallets,   you support me because the Leatherman can now support me because I made a sale. And if you want 10% off of one of these gorgeous   forever wallets,   then use the code Bitcoin and in the coupon code and get 10% off of your order.   Right? So Bitcoin and coupon code, the Leathermint.com,   go buy. He says, oh,   Circle p made a sale for me. I'm going to throw him Satoshi. So then Leathermint can support   me, and then I can support you by bringing you this show to tell you stories like this one. Michael Saylor's strategy   has upped its Bitcoin bet with a $1,000,000,000   stock offering. Zoltan Vardai from Cointelegraph   tells us how Michael Saylor's   new stride or whatever the hell he's calling this thing has completely blown away   strife and strike and everything else that he's already offered.  

It's like the public is insatiable   to get a hold of anything   that looks like Bitcoin or is related to Bitcoin or has exposure to Bitcoin, but they're still afraid to hold Bitcoin. We We got a lot of work to do, people.   Strategy, the world's largest corporate Bitcoin holder plans to raise 1,000,000,000   through a new stock offering   to fund yet additional Bitcoin purchases. The company,   led by Michael Saylor, plans to issue 11,764,700   shares   of 10%   series a perpetual stride preferred stock at a public offering price of $85   a share.  

10%   yield, ladies and gentlemen.   I I'll bet you Misty, MSTY,   I'll bet you see a massive outflow. It actually, you already have. You saw a 9%   drop in the Misty shares yesterday.   And I'm not gonna get into what Misty is, but it's about strategy. It's not offered by MicroStrategy.   It's like a derivative of all this stuff. You you saw, like, a 9% drop. I'll bet you everybody's taking their money out of Misty because they want this thing, which is a 10%   yield on series a perpetual   preferred   stock at a public offering price of $85 a share. They estimate raising about $979,700,000   from the net proceeds after deducting   underwriting discounts and commissions   for the firm's offering expenses.  

The company plans to use almost $1,000,000,000   for general corporate purposes, including the acquisition of Bitcoin and, of course,   working capital.   The move this and here's the real meat of this.   The move   quadruples the company's previously announced $250,000,000   stock raise   and introduces a new financing route beyond its historical use of common stock and convertible debt. In contrast,   Strategies Perpetual preferred stocks will pay professional and institutional investors   noncumulative   dividends   equal to 10% of stated amount.   At the current price of a hundred and 3,800   per Bitcoin, which is now about a hundred and 5,000,   the $1,000,000,000   would enable strategy to acquire an additional 9,633   Bitcoin   significantly more than its last purchase of 705   Bitcoin for 75,100,000.0,   and strategies   Bitcoin premium has soared over 112%   compared to spot Bitcoin prices according to Van Eck. Now we could go on, but we won't because the here's the point.  

This is what is this thing called?   Let's see.   What oh, it was I think it's Stride is the name of this thing.   Let's see if it's over here. Yeah. S t r d   is the ticker symbol,   and it's called oh, there's a truck outside. Oh, it's called   Stride.   Yeah. Alright. So at 10%,   this thing's gonna do well. It they had to quadruple the stock offering because it's, like, clearly,   you know, as far as people telegraphing to Michael that they're planning on buying it, this thing is oversubscribed   by four x.   They wanted to do two fifty, and now they've gotta raise it to a billion?   The degeneracy out there is staggering. It's eye watering. It's kinda making me nauseous.  

And,   yes, the people that are on Twitter are crying right now because they're saying   this will be the death of Bitcoin.   No.   No, won't. They were saying that about FTX. It just it did send us into a bear market. I didn't like it either, but did it kill Bitcoin?   No. That's just dumb.   Anybody who's saying this is going to kill Bitcoin at this point   clearly hasn't been here long enough, has   has either is either not here long enough or has never going to like Bitcoin, has never liked Bitcoin, and never will like Bitcoin, like, I don't name name your asshole,   but it's not going to kill Bitcoin.  

Could it send us into a bear market if all this shit folds up and evaporates? Absa freaking lutely. Do do I like that? No. I do not.   Are there people out there that are infuriating,   begging for, like, $5,000   Bitcoin? Absolutely. And I can't stand them because I'm just kind of fucking done with all this shit. It's time to go.   It's time to   go. Right? This   this continuous I didn't get enough Bitcoin, so I went to wait until I'm a hundred and 50 years old to continuously buy it at 27,000   because I didn't get in at under a thousand dollars. Fuck you. I'm sorry that you missed it, bro,   But it's it's time to stop all this shit and sailors not helping.  

Because this just this kind of shit is unsustainable after a while.   The real question is, is it sustainable   up to this point? I don't know.   But I do know that this is going to continue, and it is going to it's already reached a fever pitch, and it will probably get worse   because why?   Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.   This is when you are needing to be   extremely   careful.   This is where people are showing you how much money they've made on Twitter.   Some I've even seen it on Nostra   because they got into MSTY   and MSTR   and STRIFE and STRIKE and all the other bullshit.  

And you might be saying, you know, may maybe I should. Maybe I should sell some of some of my Bitcoin for this, and and then I'll dump out and I'll get I'll get even more Bitcoin.   You are begging for tears.   Let's run the numbers.   Whoop dee doodie doggy. Futures and commodities West Texas Intermediate is up 2.13%   to $64.72.   Wow. I guess the divorce is completely over today. Brent Norce is up almost two points to $66.59.   Natural gas up   three points to $3.78   per thousand. And gasoline is up almost a point to $2.08   a gallon.  

Gold is down   point 89%   to $33.45   in 0 dime. Silver is up point 8%. Platinum is up 2.8%,   while copper is down 1.7.   But palladium   swinging for the fences at 5.35%   to the upside.   Biggest winner in ag today is corn, 1.08%   to the upside. Meanwhile, biggest loser is coffee,   point 8% to the downside. Live cattle is up   point   five oh, a half a point up for live cattle, but lean hogs,   they're swinging for the fences too. 2% to the upside, so I guess they are actually taking over the ag spot.   Feeder cattle, however, crawling sideways slightly in the red. Meanwhile,   the Dow is up point six. Nope. Just switched over point 7%.  

S and P is point 76%.   Nasdaq,   everything's in the green, point 79%   to the upside, and the S and P Mini is point 6%   to the upside.   Hundred and $4,880   is the price of Bitcoin. That is a $2,080,000,000,000   market cap, and we can get 31.1   ounces of shiny metal rocks with our one Bitcoin of which there are 19,874,978.97   of. An average fees per block are low.   Very, very low. 0.03   BTC   taking fees on a per block basis. There are five blocks   carrying 4,500   unconfirmed transactions waiting to clear at high priority rates of 3 Satoshis per vbyte.   Low priority is gonna get you in at the same rate.  

We are losing hash rate. 871.9   exahashes per second represents a fairly serious dip, but   871.9   exahashes per second   is, like,   10 times more   hash rate than just a couple of years ago.   Just keep that in mind.   From   Supplication   Coin, yesterday's episode of Bitcoin, and I got late stage HODL   with 15,000   sats. Now that's a donation, brother.   Hello, sir. Just came across your podcast recently.   Listened to about 15 to 16 episodes   all the way back to the free samurai episode. Anyway,   keep up the good work, sir. Here's some value for value stats for your contribution to my   40 HPW.  

Just a quick stupid question.   When you say circle p, what do you mean? I understand the idea of a circular economy, but p?   Pleb   Plebconome. I like that word. Plebconome.   Sir, you're very close.   Circle p stands for circle pleb. It's a play off the circle k. Strange things are afoot at the circle k. If you know the movie   that I'm making the reference from,   good for you. But the circle p is sort of just like I'm I'm ripping it off. Yes. I'm ripping off Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. It's the circle p because it does stand for a circular economy in Bitcoin, but it's pleb based. And I really do like the word pleb economy. That actually works very, very well, and I might actually work that in.   I appreciate that they're late stage,   but I hope that answers your question. If not, let me know, and I'll try to do a better job. Axelrod with 1,021   SAT says,   that was a badis show, b a d I s s. Thank you. I agree. It was a good show.  

Deleted account with a thousand says cheese.   Cheese, grommet. Actually, it doesn't say cheese, grommet, but it just reminds me   of the, grommet.   What was it? Wallace and Grommet? Yeah.   Wallace and Grommet. If you've never seen any any of the Wallace and Grommet,   stop action claymation   cartoons,   dude, you're   so missing out.   So missing out. Psyduck with seven twelve says, Psyduck.   Yodel   with 511   says, you're my regular daily Bitcoin news source. Thank you. No. Thank you. Turkey with 500 says, nothing at all again. Come on. Don't be a turkey.   Next time, turkey, say something turkey. Don't be the turkey. Thank you, sir. With 500 sat says the circle p in the sky keeps on turning.  

One of my favorite songs from Journey.   Anyway, progressively worse with 300 says keep bringing the heat. Pies with a hundred says thank you, sir. No. Thank you. That's the weather report.   Welcome   to part two, the news that you can use.   We're gonna start this one off with a fairly long one. This is written by Juan Gault for Bitcoin Magazine, but it's important   because back in the day,   there was   a time when a young man said enough.   He was tired of lies,   and he created a project called BTC   pay server.   As other things have come up, like eCash and   and, like, Fedimintz   and, clearly, the Lightning Network and, you know, and all this, there's and and everybody's,   like, aforementioned,   you know, affinity to things like Stride and Stride and Strife, and everybody's playing the markets.  

We don't hear a lot about BTC pay server anymore, but it is   still remains in my mind and the mind of many of the other Bitcoiners that have been here for any length of time as one of the most important,   one of the most critical pieces   of Bitcoin infrastructure that there is that is not part of the Bitcoin code itself.   BTC   pay server   solved and continues to solve   a fuck ton of problems.   And if you don't know what it is,   by the end of this one,   you will.   BTC   pay server, the backbone   of Bitcoin commerce 2025.   The genesis story   of BTCPay   Server is without a doubt   one of the most iconic moments in Bitcoin history.  

A single developer feeling betrayed by BitPay,   a Bitcoin payments processing giant, and its attempt at co opting Bitcoin   declared economic war on the company in a tweet that will never be forgotten by the Bitcoin industry.   Quote,   this is lies.   My trust in you is broken.   I will make you obsolete.   Nicholas Doria went on to create one of the most widely distributed open source projects in the Bitcoin industry   and perhaps the invoicing and payments industry as a whole,   BTCPay   Server.   Much has been written about the context and motivation behind Dorrier's   founding of the project. There's even a documentary about it.  

What's seldom highlighted   is how ambitious a project BTC Pay Server is,   how feature rich it has become, and how deeply integrated it is with the industry. In fact,   it is easy to forget   that as an open source project with no centralized database of   users, BTC pay server is both a massive privacy upgrade for its users   and represents the removal of a fundamental middleman   processing payments.   As a result,   Doerier and the BTC pay server community have created a public goods infrastructure,   a kind of commons   of payment processing   that provides users real value by saving them fees and providing them with a much smoother user experience given that no personal information is required for the payments to flow.  

Humbly described on their website as a self hosted   open source cryptocurrency   payment processor,   BTCPay   Server is an invoicing and accounting system for merchants,   a fully featured Bitcoin wallet with full node capabilities,   on chain   lightning network and liquid network support,   hardware wallet support, and a modular plug in system.   The plug ins in particular extend the core   of BTCPay   Server into a wide range of niches.   They also integrate into e commerce giants such as WooCommerce   and Shopify.   It is somewhat difficult   to gauge the success and scope of BTCPay   Server.  

Because it is a self hosted platform that does not capture customer data of any kind,   our view into its success is somewhat limited. However,   we can get a sense   of their reach by proxy of other metrics. For example,   their primary software repository has had over   170   open source contributors   with 8,393   commits at the time of writing.   As of 2025,   BTCPay Server has had 1,000,000 downloads   directly from its GitHub repository   which does not account for cloud providers   of the software as hosted by companies like Voltage or Luna Node.   It is also often the case that one instance of BTCPay   Server   serves multiple merchants   and hosts multiple stores simultaneously.  

Rockstar Dev, one of the top contributors to the project, told Bitcoin Magazine that there could be hundreds of thousands of instances of BTC pay server running throughout the world.   Tobe Chilletta,   a contributor to the project, also told Bitcoin Magazine that, quote,   of the seven continents of the world,   I think it is only Antarctica   that I haven't seen someone run BTCPay   Server.   I'm certain we have merchants running in Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, and Australia.   BTC   pay servers website   business directory,   while far from exhaustive, covers hundreds of merchants onboarded.  

The BTC pay server community   also does regular case studies of user cohorts   or major merchants that use the software documenting their integration and story into their case studies page.   It gives fantastic   insights into a variety   of Bitcoin communities throughout the world and includes useful guides on how to replicate various results and implementations.   Namecheap, for example,   boasted over $70,000,000   of Bitcoin volume since their integration of BTCPay   Server.   From 05/18/2020   to October 2024, they clocked in 1,100,000   transactions in total with over 500,000   users paying in Bitcoin,   resulting in over $73,000,000   of revenue   through payments made from over 200   countries.  

BTCPay   Incorporated,   the parent company of the biggest Bitcoin conference in the world, has for years been setting up BTCPay   server for its merchants   and even has a one hour behind the scenes documentary on the complexities   of setting up dozens of merchants at a conference.   The event saw over 25,000   attendees including the forty seventh president of The United States, Donald   J Trump.   In this most recent Bitcoin twenty twenty five conference in Vegas,   BTCPay   Server was used to process a new world record of Bitcoin transactions   within an eight hour period with 4,187   transactions in total.  

The initial target was 4,000 transactions   and was set by the Guinness World Book of Records organization.   One of the most important   dimensions   of Bitcoin Pay Server is its plug in system.   Given the wide variety of ways companies can interact with Bitcoin, the developer community   has optimized the BTCPay   Server code toward a plug in model   that developers can build for with a well documented set of GitHub repos   as well as an API.   Today, there are over 30 plug ins available on BTCPay   Server.   Here are some of its greatest hits.   BoltsSwapExchange   plugin.  

Bolts is an atomic swap exchange focused on the various Bitcoin layers such as Liquid, Lightning, Rootstock, and of course, Bitcoin on chain.   It has gained prominence of late as a very simple solution to the channel rebalancing   challenges   Lightning wallets face.   Rockstar Dev   told Bitcoin Magazine that he is particularly   impressed with the Bolt's integration   and even tweeted as much earlier this year.   Branded as a non custodial Bitcoin bridge, Bolt's allows users to swap   between different Bitcoin layers while retaining maximum control of their funds   using atomic swap technology that eliminates third party trust across crypto native payments.  

For example,   you can use Bolts via BTC pay server to make lightning payments   where the sats are initially held at rest in a liquid network wallet and are pulled   from that balance by the bolt's plug in.   The l b t c is   sorry. Hold on.   Atomically   I was about to say automatically.   Atomically swapped for SATs on the Lightning Network via the Bolt's exchange   and the Satoshis flow to the end recipient.   This whole process is effectively non custodial.   This is the same type of Lightning Service Provider style infrastructure   with which Breeze Wallet   recently announced integration.  

While it is not quite as cheap as a user operated lightning node can be in the best of cases, it is far easier to set up and run, only demanding a few clicks on the BTCPay   server interface.   As far as BTCPay server is concerned,   this bolts plugin represents a full lightning node   integrating natively   with the invoicing and accounting layers.   This tech also scales quite well. One BTCPay   Server admin can support many different merchants   and not even have to run or manage a standard lightning node since the plug in supports   automated liquidity management.  

Now we have the Bolt Cards plug in. The Bolt Card,   a company and a product created by the Coin Center Exchange,   has come into prominence recently thanks to its unique graphics and the laser eyes that light up on tap to pay.   They   too have a BTC pay server plug in that lets users manage and connect these cool   NFC cards to their wallets via the plug in.   Bolt cards   are NFC   tap to pay devices that function like debit cards.   Users can make Bitcoin payments in person with the same tap to pay experience delivered by Visa and Mastercard,   though with far more privacy since bank cards transmit your name and full card details   with every payment,   whereas lightning users have the potential to pay directly from their own lightning nodes and without personally identifying information required for payments to process.  

The BoltCard plug in and BTCPay   server is fairly straightforward,   allowing users to set up, reset, and check the balance of their bulk cards, allowing users to spend directly from their BTC pay server integrated lightning nodes.   And then we have the Ghost blogging suite.   Ghost,   a popular open source blogging tech stack has recently integrated with BTCPay   via a plugin   letting users accept donations and paywall content   The integration covers all forms of media formats and supports a tiered membership for exclusive content   akin to Patreon   but with Bitcoin.  

And then there's Nostra support.   Nostra is also integrated   as a plug in to BTC pay server, which unlocks   interactivity   with that entire ecosystem.   The plug in supports user account verification as an alternative   to managing a user database and can support Zaps and Lightning payments via Nostra Wallet Connect.   Satoshi Tickets   is an event ticket management system, an example of the depth of tooling supported by BTCPay   server plug ins and the potential that it unlocks.   The ticket system is, of course, fully integrated with the invoicing and payments accounting layer, letting event businesses accept bitcoin and fiat payments   with the help of other plug ins and API.  

And then we have Prism.   BTCPay   Server has found a reliable niche in Bitcoin conferences where merchants   are often encouraged to accept Bitcoin as payment   and are willing to be onboarded to new technologies.   The feedback   resulting from many such tests is that merchants need dollar stability   to at least, you know, cover their cost.   And this is where the Prism plug in comes in. Prism allows the splitting of Sats flow to different pockets values allowing merchants to auto convert, say,   80% of their revenue   to   Tether, USDT,   via an exchange like SideShift   while keeping the remaining 20% in Bitcoin.  

This kind of technology is essential for cash flow heavy businesses   that have very predictable expenses and can't stomach the volatility risk.   The profits, however, can easily stay in Bitcoin   if they so choose.   Cash plugin   supports cash payments using BTCPay Server as the invoicing suite.   It supports a wide range of fiat currencies,   a key feature for brick and mortar businesses that do not serve the Bitcoin market primarily.   Even podcasters   who represent a significant and essential portion of the Bitcoin community can set up self host podcast two point o streaming   via BTCPay   Server   with the dedicated plug in named pod   server. BTC pay server is supported by various philanthropic and for profit organizations through grants and donations   such as OpenSats and the Human Rights Foundation, Spiral, and Tether among others.  

Individual contributors are sponsored   at times to do specific or general work while a BTC pay server nonprofit foundation   has also set up or been set up to handle tran traditional   donations and distribute them to the contributors   on a case by case basis. So just keep that in mind. That is the end of this article.   Yes. I know it's long, but   we can't forget.   We we just can't forget   these earlier   projects that have come up. Because BTC pay server, while it did come up   after, I think, after lightning was introduced,   it's still just as important as lightning network is. Now that's the thing is that you you'll you might say, but I've never heard of BTC pay server. That's what I'm trying to fix.  

Not only is this an old project   that has been around   for years,   battle tested   for years,   bug fixed for years,   contributed to for years,   it represents   one of the very best parts of Bitcoin.   When BitPay   and their CEO and I can't remember the name right now, it doesn't really matter when they decided to sign the New York agreement   to try to essentially   fork Bitcoin   and basically   try to take it over is essentially what happened,   that's when Nicholas Doria just he had had enough.   And said, fine. Fuck you. I'll just build my own goddamn shit. I don't need you as a payments infrastructure.   I know how to code,   and that was before   AI.  

That was before vibe coding. That and and I   vibe coding is not going to solve every problem. It's not gonna solve a lot of problems. It's going to solve some problems   because there are some people that don't know how to do certain things or not as good of a coders they should be that will be able to at least attempt   to get their idea in a workable form outside of their head. That is a critical issue as we move forward. Nicholas Daurier   fundamentally   was I don't wanna say lucky, but for lack of a better term in time, he was lucky enough to have both the brains, the Braun, and the know how   to code up the very first instance instance of BTC   BTC pay server.  

We owe him a lot,   and we owe BTC pay server a lot   tell your friends about BTC   pay server go learn about it shit I mean there are all manner of links to all kinds of different things in the the article that I just read you The link to this article is gonna be in the show notes.   Take some time.   Go   if you don't know anything about BTC pay server, god forbid this is the first time that you've ever heard about it. And if it is,   fix that shit now.   Go figure out what BTC pay server is, what it can do, how long it's been here, and who is involved in the project.   It's   an it's an extremely   important project.  

Now let's move on   to early Twitter investor builds a $100,000,000   Bitcoin treasury   for public   health company.   Wow. Okay. That's an interesting way to term it, but this is, by the way,   Liz Napolitano   writing for Decrypt.   Yet yet another   public company with little to no previous involvement in cryptocurrency   has signaled that it will top off its coppers   coffers with Bitcoin.   Health technology firm,   Knowlabs,   k n o w, Labs, Knowlabs,   plans to buy 1,000 Bitcoin worth roughly a hundred and 5,000,000.   The company representative said on Friday in a statement also announcing that prominent fintech investor Greg Kidd   would be acquiring a controlling interest in the firm. So, oh,   so not only are they gonna buy a whole bunch of Bitcoin, they've got a guy that wants to buy a whole bunch of the company that's buying a whole bunch of Bitcoin. Quote, I'm thrilled   to deploy a Bitcoin treasury strategy with the support of a forward looking organization like Nolabs   at a time when market and regulatory conditions are particularly   favorable, Kidd said in a statement.  

Quote, we believe this approach will generate sustainable growth and long term shareholder value. Yay. Better put a tie on that suit speak. I love it when they say words but actually say nothing.   Bitcoin   was recently trading at a hundred and 5,000, blah blah blah. Nolab shares are trading at 87¢   a share.   Wow. Marking a 71%   increase in its stock price since Thursday's close.   Wow. And that's just on the announcement. That's almost like an announcement of an announcement   and a 71 increase   in their stock price.   I I've gotta pause because it just dawned on me.  

Legacy markets,   the people that are buying stuff like Strike and Stride and Strife and and Misty and all that kind of shit. Yeah. There's a lot of shitcoiners out there that are doing it, but there's a lot of Bitcoiners that are converting Bitcoin into it. Yes. We can bitch at them. But I don't think they're the majority of people driving those those markets or that particular sector of the market. I think it's just I think it's just general, like, like, finance bros that are looking for anything other than zombie companies to invest in because I can almost guarantee you, if you really dig into the weeds on each one of these companies that we think are oh so great,   what we probably find is that from a skeletal standpoint, they have osteoporosis   or or widespread   bone cancer   or something that is going to essentially and eventually take out the frame   of which all the lies sit upon.  

And they're looking for anything else. And you know what's probably going to be all shiny and sparkly?   Is something new.   And this is not investment advice.   Alright? And I really have to state that because I could get my ass sued,   and I'm not going to do it.   But I can almost bet   that you're going to see continual   continual   outflows from zombie based companies   to stuff like   Nolabs.   When you've got almost   a   like an 87%   or an 87¢   share price, they're gonna get into Bitcoin.   Their share price, you know, is like 71 just because of the announcement. Their share price rises 71%.   You're not getting that with Microsoft. You're not getting it with Amazon. You're not getting it with Google. You're not getting it with Nvidia.  

It's just all smoke and mirrors when you're talking about companies that are that are really along   at 50 to one   price to earnings ratio.   I'm paying $50   for a share that makes me $1 a year at a 50 to one.   Right? My my dad was always the guy who's saying on price to earnings, you need to be looking at four to one, eight to one, and even eight to one made him nauseous, and that was in the mid eighties.   Do the   math. Where do you think this shit's gonna rotate into?   It's the same story on Wall Street for decades and decades and decades and decades.   They're they're coming here because the strategy shifts comes as a growing field of public companies stock their reserves with cryptocurrencies   to share in the success   of software firm strategies,   Bitcoin holding playbook, and strategy is the largest publicly traded big yeah. We know. We know. We know.  

That's pretty much the end of that article. No labs.   Maybe we should look into it. Hell, I don't know.   Better than shoving your money into freaking Google, that's probably for sure. Anyway, there's another company, a Bitcoin   life insurer,   meanwhile, becomes the first company to publish audited financials denominated   in actual Bitcoin.   Jenna Montgomery has this one for Bitcoin magazine.   Insurance   Bitcoin wait a minute. Insurance Bitcoin Limited, that's the name of the company. Insurance Bitcoin Limited   announced it it has become the first company in the world to release externally audited financial statements denominated entirely in Bitcoin.   According to the announcement, the company reported 220.4   Bitcoin in assets   and a 25.29   BTC in net income for 2024,   which is a 300%   year over year increase quote.  

We've just made history   as the first company in the world to have a Bitcoin denominated financial statement   externally audited, said Zach Townsend,   CEO,   oh, of meanwhile. Sorry. That that's the company's name. I'm just a little confused. I've got four brain cells. Give me a break. Meanwhile,   quote,   this is an important foundational step in reimagining the financial system based on a single global decentralized   standard outside the control of any one government.   The financial statements were audited by Harris and Trotter LLP   and its digital asset division, h t dot digital. Meanwhile,   financials oh, god. Oh, god. This is a terrible name for a company. Sorry. Meanwhiles   financials   also comply with Bermuda's insurance act 1978   noting that their BTC denominated financials were approved   and comply   with official guidelines.  

The firm, fully licensed by the Bermuda Monetary Authority, operates entirely in Bitcoin   and is prohibited   prohibited   from liquidating   Bitcoin assets   unless through policy holder claims   positioning it as a long term holder.   That's interesting.   Unfortunate   name because it makes me look stupid, but, hey, I'm gonna give them a break. At least they got their financials audited in Bitcoin. And finally, Posta Romana   launches the very first Bitcoin ATM in post offices.   Atlas twenty one has the story. Romania   has witnessed the inaugural   first Bitcoin ATM placed within the offices of Posta Romana,   the country's national postal service. The installation took place   at the Tulcia   I can't T U L C E A, Tulcia, I guess. I'm sure it's not pronounced that way. The Tulcia branch, the result of a strategic collaboration between   Posta Romana and Bitcoin Romania,   1 of the country's leading exchanges.  

According to the official announcement from the postal service, this marks only the first step   in a broader project. God, I wonder what that is. The next locations   set to host these ATMs will be Alexandria,   Piahtra   Nemat,   Confirming the postal services   commitment to widespread   distribution of these devices.   The integration of Bitcoin ATMs and post offices   is part of a wider strategy to modernize the existing infrastructure through cutting edge digital technologies.   The initiative also aims to expand the range of services available in areas of the country traditionally   underserved.  

So Bitcoin ATMs in yet another post office,   except this time in Romania.   Telling you, man, Eastern Europe   is one of the places that I watch a lot, even if they are part of the, you know, even parts of Eastern Europe that are part of the EU.   I still look at Eastern Europe because it's different   than Western Europe. I'm sorry. It just is. They might have taken the Berlin Wall down, but it never really   those roots   were I mean, you're talking about, like, four four decades   of the separation between Western Europe and Eastern Europe   predominantly   represented by the Berlin Wall in Germany. Yes. I know. But it was symbolic. It it was part of the the iron curtain   in the, like, right after World War two.  

Russia basically dropped the what was then referred to as the iron curtain. And from a sociological   standpoint, it really changed the face of Europe.   And I never believed that dropping the wall between East And West Europe through the Berlin Wall falling   really changed as much as we think it does. And that's why I keep my eye not on Western Europe,   but on Eastern Europe because those guys   those guys even though that they were on the quote unquote the wrong side of the iron curtain,   I think that caused them to be a little bit more pragmatic   and not so apt to believe   rafts and wheelbarrows   full of bullshit,   which is what The United States and Europe has been feeding the rest of the world for   years,   predominantly and specifically with   European Western European currencies,   especially the pound sterling, and now the euro, and, of course, the United States dollar.  

It's Eastern Europe, the Baltics, the Balkans, the Continent Of Africa,   South America, Central America. These are the things that I watch.   Everybody else, they're gonna be last on the boat,   except for possibly The United States, but we just can't seem to get our ever loving shit together.   Be that as it may, it doesn't really matter. I am out of time. I gotta go. I will see you on the other side.   This has been Bitcoin, and and I'm your host, David Bennett. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and hope to see you again real soon.   Have   a   great   day.