ITS OVER: 🟠 $IBIT took $0 yesterday and broke its daily inflow streak at 71 days, shy of all time record 🔥

It utterly smashed the record for a new launch. For context, $GLD had awesome launch and its 'out of the gate' inflow streak was 3 days...

h/t Eric Balchunas

JUST IN: 🟠 The buy #Bitcoin sign shown behind Janet Yellen at a congressional testimony in 2017 sells for 16 $BTC (+$1 Million) at auction 🙌

JUST IN: 🟠 The first satoshi of #Bitcoin's fourth halving block just auctioned off for 33.3 #BTC worth over $2.1 million 🤯

BREAKING: ⚡️ Hashprice hits new all-time low of $56.5 📉

🇩🇪 Buying a burger in Germany with #Bitcoin 🍔🙌

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 FBI warns Americans against using non-KYC #Bitcoin and crypto money transmitting services❗️

Get your cold storage wallets ASAP because they WILL make them illegal

"They're going to go after self-custody because they need capital controls to properly execute financial repression.

Capital is sufficiently captured in walled-garden ETFs.

Widely adopted self custodial #bitcoin used as a MoE w/ privacy tools present an existential threat."

- Dylan LeClair

Another really scary thing coming out from Samourai's indictment is that the spooks are actually on X 👀

"Twitter User" in your DMs could be a fed❗️

NEW: 🟠 Japanese public company Metaplanet has announced it purchased ¥1b ($6.25m) of $BTC, equivalent to ~30% of the company's current market cap 🤯

🚀 Metaplanet has officially acquired ¥1 billion ($6.25M) in Bitcoin, making a bold move to use it as a treasury reserve asset.

https://www.btctimes.com/news/metaplanet-invests-1-billion-in-bitcoin-fulfilling-pledge

🟠 Are you ready to be deemed a criminal anon? Because it's coming! 👀

💬 Fernando Nikolić launches "Know Your Bitcoin Meme" – a site archiving Bitcoin's viral images and cultural references. Celebrating #Bitcoin culture, the site serves as a digital "Great Library of Alexandria" for memes 📚

#BTC
https://www.btctimes.com/news/bitcoin-historian-launches-website-to-track-meme-history

BREAKING: 🚨 Phoenix Wallet to stop business in the US starting from May 3rd, 2024❗️

Incoming CM rant, feel free to ignore.

When countries have high debt and high spending the only way out is something called 'Financial Repression'.

It is not just a term, is a concept through which the State cleans its debt making people poor in the process by eroding their purchasing power (go read both Broken Money by Lyn Alden and Hidden Repression by Alex Gladstein).

In order to do this, they must first close the -financial- gates to make it impossible for people to protect themselves from this process (ie opt out of the system).

As such, it is inevitable for the State to go after those who enable opting out the system.

The only way to ensure you'll be protected is by studying Bitcoin and learning self-custody of your Bitcoin.

Do it before is too late and May Hal's spirit guide you through these troublesome times. 🫡

🟠 Adam Back compares #Bitcoin to the discovery of oil and how it can bring prosperity and improve economic standings for countries 📈

“Countries that aggressively adopt sovereign #Bitcoin mining that are rich in abundant low cost energy reserves like huge excesses in Hydro or geothermal… to use bitcoin’s monetary loop to expand their power production, mine bitcoin… it could change their standing in the world.”

- Adam Back

🌊 AQUA 0.1.51 is live and being rolled out across all devices! It includes several new features we know you’re gonna love, including send compatibility with LNURL Pay and Lightning Addresses ⚡️

🇺🇸 Brian Kelly explains how the FED will tolerate higher level of inflation and how #Bitcoin should perform well 💸

“Your buying power in your currency is going to go down, so your groceries are going up, you’re just not going to have enough buying power."

- Brian Kelly

ICYMI: 🚙 Tesla’s latest earnings report shows the company has not sold any additional #Bitcoin and still holds 9,720 #BTC ($643 million) 👀

NEW: 🟠 "#Bitcoin on-chain dynamics are decidedly positive" after the halving, with strong exchange outflows and record ETF inflows suggesting healthy market absorption, according to Bitfinex 🙌