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Matt Carvalho
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chronicling the products layered upon the bitcoin protocol. dying on the crypto(graphy)-abolitionism hill.

Jan 3,

2009: $0

2010: $0

2011: $0

2012: $5

2013: $13

2014: $803

2015: $315

2016: $434

2017: $1,020

2018: $15,083

2019: $3,792

2020: $7,335

2021: $32,995

2022: $46,429

2023: $16,670

2024: $42,865

2025: $96,732

2026: $90,113

Boe Jiden's Executive Order 14067 placed "the highest urgency on research and development [...] of a United States CBDC."

Donald just revoked it and prohibited CBDCs. This seems to be the only news worth BREAKING. 🗞️

Sat/Cent parity achieved! Now, 0.00000001 BTC is worth more than $0.01. 🪙

Buy the dip! Bitcoin won’t stay this cheap for long

Data breach alert: 250,000 Brazilians' IDs, credit card details, and bank statements leaked from 7 financial institutions. 🇧🇷

KYC is the illicit activity. 🪪

Kendrick dropping Bitcoin bars on his new album is bullish 🐂

Drake bribing snitches in Bitcoin is bearish 🤡

Thrilled to see Bitkey rolling out new on-ramps with transparent pricing! I didn’t expect them to go beyond CashApp. 🎢

Not available outside the US, unfortunately

Closing my Xapo account today.

It served me well for over an year.

Now seeking a Bitcoin-friendly fiat bank that:

🥾 Doesn't hike prices by 567% without offering anything new

🤹‍♂️ Prioritizes core services over yield gimmicks

Taxation is theft, and using Bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange is self-defense.

Excited about nostr:npub19yfzme2usrukjgwxs3eekfnj5xhnarygpqjr2m48agsvvgz32ggqhymc68's Bitcoin-backed credit card! 💳

Locking collateral in a multisig escrow lowers risk for lenders and slashes interest rates.

Spend without selling. Perfect for holders who live on the Bitcoin standard and need a bridge to the fiat world.

He mistakenly selected SIGHASH_NONE when broadcasting his transaction.

This allows anyone to RBF his transaction and change the outputs.

A bot that steals inscriptions replaced his transaction and burned 0.79 BTC to mining fees.

Sparrow now has a warning, but IMO this options shouldn't even be clickable for single input transactions:

https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/commit/8d7308bc37fbf957c32fd9756086b35d9585740e

Someone recently lost 0.8 BTC after stepping on an option Sparrow probably shouldn't even have exposed.

Footguns everywhere. Tread lightly! 💣

reading this headline gave me headache