Beyond buying BTC, Metaplanet earned ¥8.6bn via options strategies and reported a 568% BTC Yield, while keeping trading separate from long-term reserves.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/metaplanet-bitcoin-bet-revenue-soars-35k-btc
Be careful when creating that passphrase, anon.
NEW: Prenetics has decided to halt BTC purchases due to prolonged weakness in the market.
In the final week of 2025, Senator Dave McCormick disclosed up to $200K in new Bitcoin purchases.
McCormick sits on the Senate Subcommittee on Digital Assets.
In our latest piece by Conor Chepenik we step back to assess where Bitcoin stands at the start of the new year.
It is beginning to look less like speculation and more like infrastructure, repricing trust as it becomes a refuge, a settlement layer, and a tool for sovereignty.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/bitcoin-2026-sovereignty-settlement-repricing-of-trust
2025 ending -6% is more
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Than it is
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Either way the 4 year cycle is over.
Here’s to a green 2026.
Here’s to less fraud in 2026.
Everywhere.
"The social contract was defaulted on by the older generations, and we're stuck paying for benefits we'll never see."
Infra joins to discuss:
🔸 $140k Poverty Line
🔸 Gen Z Financial Nihilism
🔸 Why He's Stacking Bitcoin Hard at $80K
https://blossom.primal.net/de50dbf11a008e7711afe68e32334eb4188a604065d4b389ac774fd11cb72ca3.mov
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Uwe32iuv4cc
Listen on Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/SdJhgUq7kmWVn8DhkD8m
Sberbank Makes History With Russia’s First Bitcoin-Backed Loan
The pilot deal used Sberbank’s own digital custody system, locking the mined bitcoin as collateral and preventing the borrower from accessing it until repayment.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/sberbank-russia-first-bitcoin-backed-loan
CHINA’S CBDC ENABLES INSTANT FINES FROM CITIZENS
After a cyclist was caught on camera without a helmet, authorities reportedly deducted a 25 yuan fine directly from his digital wallet and applied social credit penalties.
From No To Digital ID
https://video.nostr.build/4223a54a36eccd65ff451a12901855b1077cc0ddc8fed161f41453461a35e206.mp4
Average Salary Vs. Home Price
Your salary is simply not keeping up.
However, when priced in Bitcoin, homes keep getting cheaper.
From American AF
https://video.nostr.build/811dd33d8fa996e9796b45394608af01d5f3850becaf95d721b7aca97bc7f86b.mp4
NEW: Prenetics, a supplement company which holds the 69th largest corporate Bitcoin treasury, announced Tuesday it has halted all Bitcoin purchases and will not pursue future acquisitions.
The company will retain its existing 510 BTC as a treasury reserve, while redirecting all capital toward scaling its IM8 health and longevity brand, including product innovation and international expansion.
Roughly a third of the year we work is lost to taxes paying for wars we never approved and scams run by people exploiting the system.
https://video.nostr.build/e355c59c5a5a1b4734bc778a0bbfd725e58b5f4943d208a81c37a68d23d754aa.mp4
NEW: Metaplanet announces its first Bitcoin acquisition since October 1.
The company acquired 4,279 BTC in Q4 2025 for $451.06 million and now holds a total of 35,102 BTC.
The scam began with a fake pop-up notification, used Bitcoin ATMs and gold couriers, and led to arrests of suspects on expired visas.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/fairhope-couple-scammed-out-of-200000
PETRODOLLAR'S FUNERAL: WHY THE SILVER SPIKE SIGNALS THE END OF GLOBALISM
In less than 30 days, silver has added roughly $1.3 trillion in nominal value.
On Friday alone, we witnessed a massive 10% jump, a rare 4-5 sigma event, that propelled silver past NVIDIA on Sunday night to become the world’s 2nd largest asset, with a market cap exceeding $4.65T.
Beyond the eye-popping move in a multi-trillion dollar asset, we are witnessing the cracking of a decades-old narrative.
The belief that the fiat experiment could run unabated and that the world would indefinitely accept pieces of paper for real-world goods is dissolving.
Silver gave the world a massive warning on Friday: the status quo of the last 50 years, the petrodollar standard, is ending.
The power players may try to hide it behind headlines, but they are now openly vying for control using realpolitik.
The Return of the Monroe Doctrine
In the last two months, we’ve watched the Trump administration pivot from bombing narco-speedboats in the Caribbean to launching a full-scale embargo of Venezuela.
Trump didn’t campaign on a "hot war" in Latin America, but if you read the latest strategy papers coming out of the Pentagon, a new Monroe Doctrine is clearly in play.
The haphazard plan that began with April’s tariffs has crystallized into a subversive, strategic decoupling from China and a pursuit of complete resource control over the Americas.
If Washington intends to weaken China while shoring up its own hemisphere, it must sever the Middle Kingdom’s access to its new favorite extraction point: Latin America.
The Metals War
China’s domestic silver mining is declining, making their reliance on Latin American silver concentrate a critical vulnerability.
They sense what Trump is up to and have been buying everything, from iron ore to oil to silver, in order to stockpile against the threat of a full-blown trade war.
Meanwhile, the US officially designated silver as a critical mineral in September.
This was a formal recognition of silver’s irreplaceable role in electronics, defense, and the energy transition.
That brings us back to Venezuela.
The US has already seized two Venezuelan oil tankers and is pursuing a third.
The initial excuse of targeting sanctioned vessels is giving way to a new reality: any Venezuelan ship may now be seized by force.
Washington launched this embargo because for years Caracas has been selling oil directly to China, bypassing the petrodollar system.
Simultaneously, Beijing is preparing its own countermeasures: a plan to restrict silver exports starting in 2026.
Even Elon Musk recently weighed in, tweeting his concern over silver prices; he knows he needs the metal for Tesla’s batteries, Starlink satellites, and SpaceX hardware.
A Monetary Regime Change
We are unraveling globalism in real-time. Trade is bifurcating into "Access vs. Allies."
We face a binary choice: maintain the post-1971 USD reserve structure, or devalue the currency against commodities to ensure we have the raw materials to actually build things in America again.
We cannot have both.
If we choose to build, a neutral reserve asset like gold or Bitcoin must replace US Treasuries as the primary global reserve.
The market is already voting: gold, silver and bitcoin are saying, "We choose building; reserve status be damned."
This is a monetary regime change.
The Austrian framework of scarcity, sound money, and real price discovery is exposing the fraud of the prevailing model.
Silver is the old-world stress test. Bitcoin is the new-world one.
As the system's fever breaks, the question for every Bitcoiner remains: when the next fracture hits, do you want exposure through paper wrappers... or do you want the thing itself?
That was fast 👀
The free, async ₿OSS Challenge put on by Chaincode Labs and TABConf, spans three months and pairs developers with mentors while providing real contribution paths into Bitcoin open source.
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/bitcoin-is-unfinished-developers-contribute-2026
The flash dip hit only Binance’s thin BTC/USD1 pair, tied to a new stablecoin, during low-liquidity Christmas trading, before snapping back instantly.
Bitcoin fair value vs. Gold: $169,000 📈
When priced against gold’s long-term trend, BTC remains significantly undervalued. If risk appetite returns to the market, the upside potential is massive.
The Gold-Inferred Power Law suggests the "fair" price is nearly 2x current price.
Lines out the door to buy gold and silver in 🇸🇬 Singapore.
Last time we saw this in 🇦🇺 Australia back in October, gold hit a local top.
From BullionStar
https://video.nostr.build/5917013dfdf4f52a76fac5469fc72c3514991b16ecb840847490edbd35b906e2.mp4
NEW: Bloomberg analyst calls for $10K Bitcoin 👀
https://video.nostr.build/b3fd42c9259bcf8f14619146611bc1ba257fa632a992bd7943e8ce25d9d89343.mp4
All we want for Christmas is to break out of this channel for good.
Schiff really played himself with this one.
Back in 2018, Nic Carter famously created the “Bitcoin FUD Dice.”
It was a 12-sided die covered in the same recycled headlines.
Critics could just roll it, transcribe the result, and publish their next hit piece.
“High fees.” “Energy waste.” “Toxic fans.”
Add enough together and you’ve got a solid piece for Medium.
Which is why this week feels so incredibly ironic.
Because Nic just reached back into that FUD bag and pulled out the ultimate Bitcoin boogeyman: Quantum Computing.
In a new piece that lit the Bitcoin timeline on fire, Carter argues that quantum is no longer sci-fi.
We’ve moved past the theoretical; now, he says, a breakthrough is just a "matter of engineering."
According to his research, a functional, scaled quantum computer could arrive as early as the late 2020s.
And if a "cryptographically relevant" computer arrives faster than we expect?
It could, in theory, rip private keys from exposed public keys and turn vulnerable addresses into a $600 billion honeypot.
But Nic aims his biggest shots at the Bitcoin developers.
He argues that even if a fix exists, the Bitcoin community is too slow, too fractured, and too head-in-the-sand to coordinate a migration before the clock runs out.
But... wouldn’t you know it? There’s money involved.
Carter also disclosed that his VC firm, Castle Island Ventures, just led a $6 million seed round into a post-quantum company called Project 11.
This has the "Toxic Bitcoiners" from his FUD dice asking a simple question: Is this a legitimate warning, or is it "FUD-as-a-Service" to pump a portfolio company?
So, how do we, as people with a deep vested interest in this network, think about Quantum without being FUD-ed out of our bags?
Quantum is undoubtedly a theoretical threat to elliptic curve cryptography.
But it’s also a threat with wildly uncertain timelines.
The true test for Bitcoin is whether this community can respond calmly, deliberately, and early.
That requires two things:
One: Personal On-Chain Hygiene.
Stop reusing addresses. Avoid leaking public keys. These are things you can do today to make yourself a harder target without touching a single line of Bitcoin's code.
Two: The Escape Hatch.
We need to research post-quantum signatures and start drafting contingency BIPs. We need to give this ecosystem years, not months, to coordinate.
Short-term panic weakens Bitcoin, but denying a real possibility will get you blindsided.
The middle path of adversarial thinking, slow changes, and relentless preparation is how Bitcoin went from a post on a mailing list to a $2 trillion asset.
ELON: Bitcoin is energy money.
https://video.nostr.build/48801df990169863b0ddd48b73fcef19a680c772cf426a725c095dc3f77c5ba5.mp4
BPCE adds BTC purchases with a phased rollout, charging €2.99 monthly and 1.5% per trade as it expands access to 12 million users by 2026.
There are few companies pushing Bitcoin adoption forward like Block 👀
BTC/NASDAQ Weekly Chart
The BTC/NASDAQ ratio is showing a near-perfect repeat of the 2020–2021 setup, when Bitcoin massively outperformed tech stocks.
Once again, the move is forming within an October–March window after months of a massive rising wedge; it feels primed for a breakout.
If this fractal holds, liquidity could be shifting from equities to BTC, setting the stage for Bitcoin to outperform the Nasdaq through Q4 and into early 2026.
🇳🇵 Nepal’s Gen Z just toppled their government…
And elected a new Prime Minister - on Discord.
In just 48 hours, the youth brought down a corrupt regime, powered by freedom tech like Bitchat.
A network state is born.
By Rob Wallace https://blossom.primal.net/a11a30abfc021bbf8f1ef1d0e440827771b4890b39f8d5ec9082ed59ea02948b.mov
Today's Biggest News in Bitcoin in 60 Seconds
https://blossom.primal.net/6b0b22c7508dbd6bdc1290ea5f63003b24d6f64d208da3160f82b55c72f630d3.mov
JUST IN: Pennsylvania lawmakers introduce House Bill 1812, which would ban public officials from owning Bitcoin or crypto.
Violations could bring fines or even jail time.
YAHOO: Harvard University’s endowment has disclosed a $116.7M stake in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, a larger position than its holdings in Nvidia and Google parent Alphabet.
NEW: "Every week, there is a Bitcoiner, at least one in the world, who gets kidnapped, tortured, extorted, and even worse.
We have seen cases of kidnappings for as little as $6K worth of crypto, and people murdered for $50K in crypto," says SatoshiLabs founder Alena Vranova.
NEW: 🇭🇰 Hong Kong-based Cango Inc. acquires a 50 MW mining facility in 🇺🇸 Georgia, USA, for $19.5M in cash.
It’s gunna be a big week.
