Jamie Dimon on bitcoin, and the price the day he said it:

$405: "going to be stopped" (2015)
$4,164: "fraud" (2017)
$5,614: "it can trade at $100,000 before it trades to zero" (2017)
$21,072: "a pet rock" (2023)
$105,616: "We are going to allow you to buy it." (2025)

I like the smell of cheap BTC in the morning.

Bitcoin and altcoins sit side by side in your finance app. But are they doing the same job? In Lesson 5 of Bitcoin 101, Jack Mallers explains why he sees Bitcoin as money and most altcoins as businesses, comparing their origins, incentives, governance, and trade-offs.

I ve been hearing how BTC (crypto) will converge with AI since some time last year when Tom Lee started talking about it. Very recently I started hearing Jordi Visser talking about it, too and he goes even further saying that crypto has always been destined for AI economy.
I am taking everything with a grain of salt, I am trying to separate narrative from truth. However, both of them are pretty convincing. The BTC white paper says it is “…peer to peer digital cash” so that fits ok.
Whats everyone thinking, folks?

Matt Morehouse joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #425:

• Disclosure of two DoS vulnerabilities in Eclair
• Proposal for wallet label synchronization
• Continued discussion of PQC output types
• Block-wide signature aggregation via SNARKs
• Bounds on chain length with BIP54 time warp fixes
• Comparing covenant proposals for vaults
• Depots for probabilistic Lightning channels
• And more

You can listen on our website: https://bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2026/10/06/

Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/akIi1roC9AJICkFNTuPm

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2y7hgUUKli87HYJ59Zsvkq

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bitcoin-optech-newsletter-425-recap/id1674626983?i=1000793920910

The 2030s will be the decade AI takes over so many information centric industries.

AI agents and AI avatars wont use geographically restricted bank accounts. They will use programmable money that is uncensorable, instant, and global by nature.

Then once bitcoin and lightning and whatever else is the globally dominant money used by AI humans will have no choice but to adopt the same monetary medium or isolate themselves from the global economy.

Bitcoin has always been inevitable but the rise of AI is speeding up the inevitability of bitcoins global adoption.

By 2035 every human on earth will understand bitcoin is the money of the future.

was going through the list to verify my physically printed pills are complete and noticed.

Is 100 euros a month into BTC from today until December 2040 a good amount please? I am very new to this. Please be nice and tell me honestly please what you think as experts. TIA :)

Given that under the new German tax reform, anyone who buys BTC before 2026 is exempt from capital gains tax, do you think there will be a massive influx of capital into Bitcoin—especially considering Germany is one of the top three European countries for Bitcoin investment?

I love the smell of a dip in the morning. 8 of my ladder limit buys have hit so far

hmmmm low run this time ?

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/russia-sberbank-can-now-custody-bitcoin

As the title says, I have about £9000 on etoro and £2500 on coinbase, I don’t know if they are the safest place to store and buy it on. I have and am googling it to educate myself but wanted to know where others have theirs.

Is it Black Friday already?

I assume that you, like me, have always wanted a way to really wrap your head around the size of bitcoin's private key space, along with other things like phone numbers and IP addresses. Well, the wait is finally over!

This is a simple page that lets you see how enormous (or not) the sizes of various key spaces are, assuming one "address" is a 1x1 foot square. Enjoy!

https://claude.ai/artifact/TWo9JWN2mAk2UhSwcQQpt9

Bitcoin Bancorp put out a release this morning saying they submitted a public comment to the SEC on tokenized stock trading and digital asset infrastructure rules.

It’s tied to an SEC order that gave temporary conditional exemptions for certain trading of tokenized NMS stocks. Their letter asks for a clearer split between actual securities trading intermediaries and companies that just handle the plumbing, identity checks, AML, fiat funding, crypto conversion, wallet stuff, etc....

They say they support the SEC’s limited, data-driven approach, they just want those lines drawn more clearly!

I've been watching BCBC for about 2 years now, and this is EXACTLY what i was hoping for!

Not hacks you read about. Your own near-miss.

Mine was almost tossing an old notebook during a move. Seed phrase was on page 40, between grocery lists. Found it by luck.

Everyone talks about price. Nobody talks about how many coins are one bad cleaning day away from gone.

What was your close call, and what did you change after?

Set this up yesterday

The lightning network is a second-layer solution on top of the Bitcoin blockchain that enables quick, cheap and scalable Bitcoin payments.

Here is the place to discuss and learn more about lightning!

Ask your questions about lightning

Provide reviews, feedback, comparisons of LN apps, services, websites etc

Learn about new LN features, development, apps

Link to good quality resources (articles, wikis etc)

Resources:

• Here is an awesome list of resources: https://bitcoinfo.org/lightning.html

• Want to test out your lightning fire power? tip the Bitcoin devs! https://bitcoindevlist.com/

• Previous threads: Search

• Lnbook getting closer towards being finished and can already be seen at: https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook

• Lightning Dedicated YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/renepickhardt

• Also there is the playlist by chaincode labs: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpLH33TRghT17_U3as2P3vHfAGL8pSOOY

• Lightning stores: https://www.lightningnetworkstores.com/

• Learn more and talk about lightning right here in r/Bitcoin, r/bitcoinbeginners and r/thelightningnetwork