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Bitcoin $BTC has officially crossed Google in market cap !!

Bitcoin’s market value just officially beat Amazon and is now the 5 biggest asset in the world!

Crazy, right? 👀🚀

Cool website for tracking provably lost bitcoin:

Cool website for tracking provably lost bitcoin: 

https://bitcoin-supply.com/

I’m trying to sleep and bitcoin won’t let me 🌚

$99K $BTC

Probably the last time to buy 🌽 under 100k

Strike now has native Bitcoin backed loans available..kinda. The minimum loan amount is 75,000 USD at an APR starting at 12%. Maximum LTV is 50% so you need a bare minimum of 150,000 USD worth of BTC to get one. They aren't available in every state either. And you wonder why people are wrapping their bitcoin to access some liquidity. 

With Strike you have to KYC and send off your Bitcoin to a company. Is that any better than wrapping it and depositing into a smart contract on Ethereum to borrow USDT at 5% with no KYC? I guess with the no KYC loan you have to trust Bitgo, the smart contract itself, and Ethereum whereas with Strike you just have to trust Strike but you have to KYC and be richer than me. Interesting trade offs.

Global News

🚨 Military Clashes between India and Pakistan has begun.
Tensions erupt as both sides escalate militarily.

BTC wobbling like it just left a bar fight.
eth in a coma. solana devs arguing in morse code. cardano gov threads look like greek tragedies.

memes rugged. nfts flat. bots taking profit.

what a fucking time to be alive boys

Let’s talk a bit about OP_RETURN.

First: what is it?

It’s an opcode that allows arbitrary data to be stored in a transaction in a way that makes it unspendable.

Simply put: you can use it to embed things like a message, a hash, or even an image in Bitcoin.

In Bitcoin, by consensus, there are no restrictions on OP_RETURN. These are fully valid transactions under the protocol. What blocks them today is a local policy in Bitcoin Core, not the protocol itself.

So this proposal isn’t a philosophical shift — it’s an alignment between Core's standardness rules and the consensus rules.

Calling it a “cultural change” ignores that the protocol already allows it.

What exists today is a technical and policy inconsistency.

Whether we like “spam” or not (meaning anything not strictly monetary), the reality is that it exists and will continue to exist.

This proposal simply provides a cleaner path for it to happen.

It doesn’t enable it — it’s already enabled.

Bitcoin developers plan OP_RETURN removal in next release

Bitcoin developers plan OP_RETURN removal in next release

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/05/06/bitcoin-developers-plan-op_return-removal-in-next-release

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Here are 7 interesting comments Satoshi left in the original Bitcoin client(2009)

Yes, he actually wrote this one.
"This is why people hate C++"

🧵Thread👇 https://t.co/LuTA9H8u4h

https://x.com/raw_avocado/status/1919113606408352208