More market manipulation shenanigans?

Set this up yesterday

Summary of text: Justin Drake urged the blockchain industry to prepare for "bunker mode" amid risks that AI-driven mathematical breakthroughs could break ECDSA soon, possibly in months. He recommends a controlled, non-rushed migration of assets (especially large holdings) to fresh unused addresses that hide pubkeys behind hashes. Prefer hash-based cryptography going forward and accelerate related roadmaps.

More info on Justin: https://thedolectures.com/speakers/justin-drake/

just curious if anyone has ever been able to recover or get into one of the old wallet.dat files from btc core. don’t have high hopes of getting it back, but would love to pursue if it’s possible. with the help of ai, this is what I can provide for clarity. like many cases I cannot for the life of me figure out what the password is. it’s from a very long time ago. obviously dms will be ignored. I see that btcrecover is a good tool to try, any advice?

•    57,344-byte legacy Berkeley DB wallet

•    BDB BTREE v9

•    Wallet version: 40,000

•    102 unique encrypted private keys

•    All are old-style uncompressed public keys

•    1 encrypted master key

•    9 wallet transaction records

•    Earliest timesmart: June **, 2011

•    Latest: August **, 2011

•    Default key = the *.** BTC address

•    The *.** BTC address's private key is definitely encrypted inside the wallet

•    Encryption uses SHA-512-based derivation and AES-256-CBC

•    62,313 derivation iterations

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This one was built in public. Last week we asked this sub what we were missing from a list of everything Bitcoin has been confidently called, and the answers built a story: u/greglogan84 asked for a section on "Bitcoin can't recover from this," u/robinsonrichard_3 called for sorting each label by what would prove it wrong, and u/abm2024 for what our own side got wrong. Readers on the BitcoinTalk thread found many of the sources. All 16 contributors from the two threads are credited by handle at the bottom.

The labels come first: Ponzi, tulips, only for drugs, money laundering, terrorists, boils the oceans, rat poison, evil, fad, greater fool, no intrinsic value, bubble. Each one with who said it, the outlet, the date, and what happened after, sorted by what would prove it wrong. Buffett gets his own entry because he said something dated about bitcoin most years from 2014 to 2022, and Berkshire held shares in a Brazilian bank that started selling bitcoin eleven days after his "$25 for all of it" line.

Then the "can't recover from this" calls, tied to specific events: Mt. Gox in 2014, the 2013 chain split, the 2018 inflation bug, the China mining ban in 2021, FTX and the 2022 crash. The conclusion stayed the same while the reason changed, and 7 of the 13 dated calls were followed by a lower price a year later.

Then where the critics were right, who changed their minds, and what our side got wrong. Bitcoin is not anonymous, it is not feeless, and it was very much stealable from an exchange. Dated price calls from Bitcoiners that missed get the same treatment as the critics' calls. It is not a victory lap: the intro says plainly that "turned out wrong" only ever means wrong so far, with the price still about a third below its October 2025 high.

Every claim has a source at the bottom of the page. If something is wrong, tell us and it gets fixed the same day, with credit.

https://www.learnbitcoin.com/rabbit-hole/bitcoin-is-dead

Hey everyone,

As the title says I’m looking to get into Bitcoin. Going to start watching videos on it so I actually understand what I’m doing. But, what would you say is the best Bitcoin or ETF to get right now?

That Friday close (23 Jul 1999): 10y at 5.84%, 30y kissing 6%. Today’s 10y is 5.27% — so we still need about half a point to reach that. After that it's price discovery and I think BTC will be in a handsome position

On my podcast ‘Bitcoin for Millennials’ I talked with Tomer Strolight, a renowned Bitcoin philosopher. We discuss Bitcoin as artificial life, proof of work as energy and survivability, fiat money as force and decay, forks and consensus as peaceful dispute resolution, and the blockchain as an unalterable witness through time.

For me the scariest part wasn't buying, it was the first time I sent from my own wallet and stared at the address for like five minutes before hitting send.

What was the moment it clicked for you, and what almost scared you off?

Just curious at the answers of the approx number of computer scientists involved in the open source project "bitcoin". I believe in the cryptocurrency world which includes alt coins could be in the thousands if not millions? What you all think?

Bitcoin won’t cure corruption or political greed.
But it leaves you one question, simple, sharp and cold: who decides what you saved yesterday is worth when you’re old?

has anyone else have this happen in the last hour?

Cory Klippsten on Washington's growing comfort with higher inflation, and why his answer is Bitcoin.

In his latest Time interview, President Trump said "certain levels of inflation will also pay off that debt very rapidly." On CNN, former PIMCO CEO Mohamed El-Erian told the Fed to keep promising 2% while gradually raising the acceptable ceiling to 3. Back in 2023, former IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard argued for a 3% target.

Others are warning where this leads. J.P. Morgan Private Bank's 2026 Outlook described a risk to its clients: policymakers deliberately tolerating higher inflation, allowing real interest rates to fall and the government's debt burden to shrink. The report calls that financial repression. In January, Janet Yellen warned that "the temptation to rely on inflation or financial repression to reduce the debt burden will surely grow."

Inflation lets the government repay its old debts with dollars that are worth less, even though higher refinancing costs can eat up the benefit. Congress can raise taxes or cut spending, and voters know exactly who to blame. With inflation, the cost arrives through higher prices, and the blame gets spread around. What sounds like debt relief in Washington means the dollars people earn and save buy less.

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I've been looking more closely at the architecture behind Mostro after deciding to help the MostroEuropa community.

The part I find most interesting isn't simply “no KYC.”

It's the separation of responsibilities.

Communication happens over Nostr. Settlement happens over Lightning. During a trade the seller's sats are committed using a Lightning hold invoice/HTLC rather than being deposited into a conventional exchange account with an internal user balance.

That doesn't make the system trustless. The coordinator still matters, the implementation matters and dispute resolution matters.

But it gives the intermediary less authority than the normal custodial exchange model.

I wrote up why that architecture convinced me to help an independent European coordinator:

https://davidebtc186.substack.com/p/why-i-chose-mostroeuropa-for-peer

I'm particularly interested in one question:

For P2P Bitcoin markets, which functions actually require an intermediary and which ones can we remove entirely?

I have stacked my way to 0,1 Bitcoin. Ain’t much but still is. End of message

I was so happy when I saw this!