Great research report by TVP on the state of Bitcoin startup funding 👏

Bitcoin startup deal count was up 69% while crypto startups were down 35%.

Of course the reason for the outperformance is the explosion of Bitcoin DeFi (Ordinals, Bitcoin L2s, and Metaprotocols).

Here’s the Bitcoin dip you’ve been waiting for, are you buying anon?

Bitcoin community: “Let’s scale Bitcoin in layers, go build L2s”

Bitcoin builders: “L2s bloomed but with weaker trust assumptions. Let’s add 10 legacy/safe lines of code to enable trustless bridges which are fundamental to Bitcoin scaling”

Bitcoin puritans: “No. Ossification”🤔

To be clear: Craig Wright (BSV fork) and Roger Ver (Bch fork) are no friends of bitcoin (BTC). They are enemies of bitcoin that forked their own shitcoin (BSV and BCH) years ago and tried to kill bitcoin. Markets decided to devalue BSV and BCH years ago. They are irrelevant.

Excited to see Arch come out of stealth!

I personally invested as an angel.

Excited to see more expressivity and Dapps on Bitcoin L1 👏

US Government:

• Steals part of your paycheck
• Prints unlimited money
• Has $35T of debt

Bitcoin:

• Fixed monetary policy
• No counter-party risk
• Completely in your control

The choice is easy.

Eclipse in Austin!

Did you catch the Runes piece I wrote for Dan Held's newsletter last week?

(includes a sneak peak at the 'Runes Gumball Machine' idea if we add OP_CTV)

The Bitcoin halving is priced in for the 0.1% of the world population that understands it.

The other 99.9% aren’t paying attention.

How much Bitcoin do you need to be able to retire in 2030?

BitVM Bridges Considered Unsafe
by Tyler Whittle & Rijndael

BitVM is a true piece of wizardry. The fact that Robin figured out how to put a computer on Bitcoin using NAND gates is mind blowing. I've learned an immense amount from studying BitVM implementations, and we love the…

We’re talking Bitcoin DeFi!

Specially DLCs.

Listen live here👇

The origins of Atomic.Finance ⚛️ #BitcoinDeFi and 10101, and the story behind the companies building the future of finance on #Bitcoin

It's now on this space! 👇

The cure for Ethereum maximalism😂

Bitcoin isn’t “bad for the environment.”

Just like using your car, hairdryer, watching TV, eating steak, and going to a bar isn’t a “bad thing.”

All energy use is subjectively useful.

At OKX we're pretty excited about Runes. This piece by Dan Held and cbspears ◉ 🥪 on why Runes is interesting for #Bitcoin is a good read!

theheldreport.com/p/bitcoin-rune…

Excited to be chatting about how DLCs can help power Bitcoin DeFi with two of the top teams in the DLC space!

Who all is going to be at NFT NYC? 👋

Bitcoin is a ponzi vaporware scheme that is only used by money launderers and criminals. And destroys the environment.

I've gone back to fiat.

Something fully trusted, completely controlled, and gives power back to the banks/government who have our best interests in mind.

Runes were built for degens and memecoins, but the protocol is simple, efficient, and secure. It is a legitimate competitor to Taproot Assets and RGB.

The protocol is self contained and has no dependencies on ordinals or inscriptions, making it extremely simple.

Balances are…