This is probably the most important contribution to the BIP-110 vs Core split.
Thank you @jonatack for the bigger picture background information, and thanks @knutsvanholm for the pod.

🚨 Memecoins Faced $1.2B in Cumulative Selling Pressure on Binance Since Bitcoin's ATH

Since its last all-time high in October 2025, Bitcoin has been navigating a climate unfavorable to risk assets, now trading more than 50% below that peak.

👉 When it comes…

July 13, 2011 (15 years ago)

The Countdown to Brazil's First Bitcoin Exchange

A developer posted a link to a site that was just a ticking clock, betting Bitcoin mattered in Brazil before the exchange even existed. Fifteen years later, it's still running.…

2/8 - On July 13, 2011, Leandro César announced on Bitcointalk "The countdown to the first brazilian Bitcoin exchange!" and linked to http://mercadobitcoin.com.br. Visitors found no order book and no wallet, just a timer. The original thread is still live:…

3/8 - Forum regular Fireball pointed out the obvious: the site "only has a countdown on it." César was announcing a product he hadn't finished building, written in Python, wagering publicly that Brazil would want a Bitcoin exchange by the time the clock hit…

4/8 - One early reply stands out in hindsight. Roger Ver (@rogerkver), already one of Bitcoin's loudest evangelists, wrote back: "Bitcoins are going to change the way the world does business. Nice work!"

5/8 - The timing looked terrible. A month earlier Bitcoin had touched roughly $31, its first speculative peak, then crashed into single digits. Commentators were writing obituaries. Launching an exchange into that wreckage took either bad judgment or real…

6/8 - It turned out Brazil was the right bet. The largest economy in South America, 9th largest in the world in 2011, and its currency was barely served by the international exchanges. Mercado Bitcoin took BRL deposits through Banco do Brasil, plus a second…

7/8 - That second rail dates the era. In 2011, Liberty Reserve was just another way to move money online. In 2013 the US government shut it down, and its founder was later convicted in a scheme that laundered $6 billion. Early exchanges built on whatever…

8/8 - Of the exchanges born in 2011, almost none survived. Tradehill closed within a year, Bitcoinica was hacked three times and folded, and MtGox collapsed in 2014. Mercado Bitcoin became Latin America's dominant Bitcoin exchange and, 15 years on, it's still…

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Bitcoin has spent less than 5% of its time under the 200 wk

In other words;

Right now is a better time to buy Bitcoin than 95%+ of its entire existence

Don’t mess this up…

My rent when I got to San Diego in 2020 was $2,300… and energy bill was $120

My rent when I left that 2 bedroom apartment last month: $3,200… and they are renting for $3,600. Energy bill was $240

Don’t even pay attention to official inflation numbers…

It usually takes 10 years for prices to double with historic inflation

But thanks to printing all that Covid funny money…

We accomplished double prices in 7 short years. That should blow your mind

50% loss in your money’s buying power and you probably…

The world has over $500 trillion dollars in store of value assets that are ALL measurably subpar to Bitcoin

Bitcoin is $1.2T dollars

Yet people with a poor market perspective will tell you that bitcoin has no room to grow 😂

Every ~2% that bitcoin rises…

$MSTR gains over $1 billion dollars in equity

Bitcoin went up 800% from last bear market bottom

Most people do not have their head wrapped around that one

I like this metric:

Amount of Bitcoin you can buy with $1M

Will be fun to see it go from 16 to under 1