Good for Bitcoin
Good For Bitcoin is a weekly show recorded live every Friday where we recap events of the week and talk about everything good for Bitcoin. If it’s built on Bitcoin, then it’s Good for Bitcoin!
Episodes
Days after spy-chipped devices from one of its resellers drained Ledger users, Ledger unveiled a phone. Plus three Canadian soldiers are charged in the kidnapping of a crypto exchange owner, the OCC confirms Operation Choke Point 2.0 was real, and Binance shuts down its mining pool.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
- The Ledger theft traces back to CryptoBilis, a third-party reseller in Southea...
Strike named its new savings buckets "Stacks," and when Brandon pointed out Stacks already exists, a Strike team member called it an affinity scam. Plus Treasury withdraws the unhosted wallet and mixer rules, the CFTC builds a federal crypto license without Congress, and Robinhood buys Bitcoin.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
- Strike launched Stacks, named buckets for your Bitcoin and cas...
Hackers used zero-day flaws in Bitget's third-party security tools to make $387M in withdrawals look like internal transfers, and a $464M protection fund made every user whole. Plus Muneeb takes over Stacks Labs, Anchorage clients can stake Bitcoin, and we ask whether a fruit fly brain can mine Bitcoin.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
- Bitget lost $387M from its hot and warm wallets. Attacke...
The Clarity Act failed its cloture vote 49 to 50, and Polymarket now gives it 8% this year. Brandon argues two-thirds of the crypto market already has its clarity; Kate warns agency rules can be undone by the next administration. Plus tokenized stocks get an SEC exemption and Revolut gets breached.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
- The Clarity Act failed to advance: it needed 60 votes and go...
A dormant bug in Liquid's confidential transactions let an attacker mint roughly 4,000 BTC nobody could see, then bridge it out. They returned 3,400, kept 600, and are negotiating with Blockstream in OP_RETURN messages. Plus Trezor's leak grows to 80,000 customers, the Stacks Genesis Bond sells out in 24 hours, and Brian Armstrong calls $400K Bitcoin by 2030 reasonable.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate ...
Critical vulnerabilities in Core Lightning have node operators going offline while a two-week embargo holds, and they were surfaced by AI-generated bug reports that proved real. Plus the first quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction mined on mainnet, Coinbase's Bitcoin-backed mortgage goes nationwide, Pakistan's full crypto licensing framework, and Strategy adds $1.59B to its reserve.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Bran...
The Treasury Just Pumped Bitcoin: 7% Surge, Bullish IPOs With 24,300 BTC, MetaPlanet Comes to the US
The Treasury yield hit 5.34%, its highest since 2007, and the Treasury answered by doubling its long-end bond buybacks. Bitcoin surged 7% in a day, its biggest move since March. Plus Bullish IPOs holding more BTC than Coinbase, MetaPlanet's US landing as SuperPlanet, the SEC's new crypto exemptions, and OrdinalsBot winds down.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
- The Treasury yield hit 5.34% th...
One week after Coldcard, Trezor got hit too: a shipping partner leaked nearly 12,000 customers' home addresses, phones, and emails. Plus BIP 110's two-block death, the Coldcard theft numbers, Tether's KPMG audit, and BlackRock's $1M door into IBIT.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
- Trezor data breach: a shipping provider exposed the last 90 days of orders across seven countries. Nearly 12,00...
The Coldcard exploit drained over $100M from wallets that never touched the internet. How a 2021 firmware bug collapsed seed entropy, what to do with your Bitcoin now, and the AI arms race finding holes faster than teams can patch. Plus: Strategy sold again, Storj went bankrupt, and .bitcoin could become a real domain.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
- The Coldcard exploit, explained: a 2021...
Jack Mallers quit Twenty One, BitMEX is closing, Satsuma is liquidating, and Smarter Web sold Bitcoin. The old guard is packing up. Plus: BlackRock and Strategy funded Bitcoin's quantum defense, the Clarity Act cleared its last blocker, and Wise debanked Peter McCormack.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
- Jack Mallers is out at Twenty One. He stepped down as CEO over a fundamental disagreemen...
The BIP-110 haters found us, so we read the hate mail on air. Plus: privacy coins are crypto's only green category this year, Lyn Alden's $40M Orange Juice, ZachXBT calls every hardware wallet 'complete garbage,' Bitcoin lands on TikTok Shop, and Vibewatch wins a Stacks grant.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
- Hate mail time: we rapid-fire the BIP-110 comments on air. Personal attacks, zero ...
The BIP 110 fight has been all mudslinging, so we did something radical: we actually read the BIP. Why the filters won't work and why it probably ends in a fork. Plus: Strategy's never-sell era is over, a $21M DAO drain that broke no rules, Kraken's $22M Choke Point 2.0 win, and StackingDAO's stBTC ahead of Bitcoin staking on Stacks.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
- The main event: BIP 110....
Out of left field: 140+ companies — Visa, Mastercard, Google, Samsung, PayPal, BlackRock, Coinbase, Stripe and more — announced Open USD, one shared stablecoin where the partners keep the reserve earnings. Then came the backlash: firms saying they never signed on, and Circle's CEO firing back. Meanwhile Strategy published a real plan for STRC (including permission to sell some Bitcoin), whales scooped up ~$16.7B, and Ro...
Bitcoin slipped under $60K and the timeline filled with obituaries — people who bought the $120K top now calling it dead. Brandon and Kate place it right where the four-year cycle predicts: deep in the trenches, with maybe nine more boring months to go. Yet nobody up top is actually capitulating — Strategy bought the dip again, STRC keeps cratering, Wall Street quietly shipped its first Bitcoin depositary receipt, and S...
Strategy's 'Stretch' — the STRC preferred stock built to trade near $100 — cratered to an all-time low of $82.53 this week, and the timeline declared it the next Ponzi. Brandon and Kate dig into whether Stretch is being stretched to its limit, plus a quiet week of buys, Illinois's punishing new crypto tax, Stacks landing on Fireblocks, BlackRock's new yield ETF, and the stat that Elon is now worth more than all of Bitco...
A week after Strategy quietly sold 32 BTC, Saylor tweeted he's 'never sold a single sat.' Brandon and Kate call out the goalpost-moving, react to a Saylor clip, then run the tape: Strategy buys 1,550 BTC, Strive needles back, Botanix shuts down its whole network, Coinbase hands AI agents your account, SBF begs for a pardon, and a classic bottom signal flashes.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
Kate's out sick, so Brandon flies solo. The headline: a researcher used Claude Opus 4.8 to find a counterfeiting bug in Zcash's shielded pool that could've minted unlimited coins undetectably — ZEC fell 30%. Plus a Bitcoin selloff below $60K, Strategy's quiet sale, and Lava's Bitcoin-back card.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
- Kate's out sick, so it's a short, solo, rapid-fire show th...
Someone moved 107 Bitcoin — nearly $8 million — out of ten-year-old, Mt. Gox-era addresses and torched it in a single burst of transactions on Monday. No note, no explanation. Brandon and Kate run the theories, then work through a packed week of treasury moves, Kraken's "native Bitcoin" yield product, and Stacks finally winning over Bitcoin Magazine.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:...
Brandon sits down with Jakob Schillinger, founder and CEO of Hermetica, on the day they raise the hBTC cap from 50 to 75 BTC — and unpack how Michael Saylor's STRC quietly became a yield engine for Bitcoin-backed dollars.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Jakob discuss:
- Jakob's origin: from running an eyeglasses business in sub-Saharan Africa to building on Bitcoin in 2016 — and why most of th...
A bipartisan duo just introduced a bill to codify a 1M-BTC Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into law — with a mandatory 20-year holding period and self-custody protections for everyday Americans.
In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
- 🍕 Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day — 16 years since Laszlo's 10,000 BTC for two pizzas.
- Strategy adds 24,869 BTC and now sits on 843,738 BTC — roughly 4% of all B...
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