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Good for Bitcoin
by Brandon Marshall & Kate Parkman
Good For Bitcoin is a weekly show recorded live every Friday where we recap events of the week and talk about everything good for Bitcoin. If it’s built on Bitcoin, then it’s Good for Bitcoin!
Episodes
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Ledger Launched a Phone: Soldiers Charged in Crypto Kidnapping, Choke Point 2.0 Confirmed
Days after spy-chipped devices from one of its resellers drained Ledger users, Ledger unveiled a phone. Plus three Canadian soldiers are charged in the kidnapping of a crypto exchange owner, the OCC confirms Operation Choke Point 2.0 was real, and Binance shuts down its mining pool. In this…
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Strike Launched Stacks: Treasury Kills the Unhosted Wallet Rule, Robinhood Buys Bitcoin
Strike named its new savings buckets "Stacks," and when Brandon pointed out Stacks already exists, a Strike team member called it an affinity scam. Plus Treasury withdraws the unhosted wallet and mixer rules, the CFTC builds a federal crypto license without Congress, and Robinhood buys Bitcoin.…
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Bitget Lost $387M to a Zero-Day: Muneeb Runs Stacks Labs, Anchorage Adds Bitcoin Staking
Hackers used zero-day flaws in Bitget's third-party security tools to make $387M in withdrawals look like internal transfers, and a $464M protection fund made every user whole. Plus Muneeb takes over Stacks Labs, Anchorage clients can stake Bitcoin, and we ask whether a fruit fly brain can mine...
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The Clarity Act Just Died: SEC Greenlights Tokenized Stocks, Bitcoin Reserve Bill Advances
The Clarity Act failed its cloture vote 49 to 50, and Polymarket now gives it 8% this year. Brandon argues two-thirds of the crypto market already has its clarity; Kate warns agency rules can be undone by the next administration. Plus tokenized stocks get an SEC exemption and Revolut gets…
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Hackers Minted 4,000 BTC on Liquid: Blockstream Won't Pay, Trezor Leak Grows, Genesis Bond Sold Out
A dormant bug in Liquid's confidential transactions let an attacker mint roughly 4,000 BTC nobody could see, then bridge it out. They returned 3,400, kept 600, and are negotiating with Blockstream in OP_RETURN messages. Plus Trezor's leak grows to 80,000 customers, the Stacks Genesis Bond sells…
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Take Your Lightning Node Offline: AI-Found Bugs, Quantum-Proof BTC Mined, Coinbase Mortgages Live
Critical vulnerabilities in Core Lightning have node operators going offline while a two-week embargo holds, and they were surfaced by AI-generated bug reports that proved real. Plus the first quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction mined on mainnet, Coinbase's Bitcoin-backed mortgage goes...
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The Treasury Just Pumped Bitcoin: 7% Surge, Bullish IPOs With 24,300 BTC, MetaPlanet Comes to the US
The Treasury yield hit 5.34%, its highest since 2007, and the Treasury answered by doubling its long-end bond buybacks. Bitcoin surged 7% in a day, its biggest move since March. Plus Bullish IPOs holding more BTC than Coinbase, MetaPlanet's US landing as SuperPlanet, the SEC's new crypto...
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Nobody Is Safe: Trezor Data Breach, BIP 110 Dies in Two Blocks, Coldcard Fallout Grows
One week after Coldcard, Trezor got hit too: a shipping partner leaked nearly 12,000 customers' home addresses, phones, and emails. Plus BIP 110's two-block death, the Coldcard theft numbers, Tether's KPMG audit, and BlackRock's $1M door into IBIT. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and...
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Coldcard Hack Explained: What Happened and How to Secure Your Bitcoin Now
The Coldcard exploit drained over $100M from wallets that never touched the internet. How a 2021 firmware bug collapsed seed entropy, what to do with your Bitcoin now, and the AI arms race finding holes faster than teams can patch. Plus: Strategy sold again, Storj went bankrupt, and .bitcoin…
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Everyone Is Shutting Down
Jack Mallers quit Twenty One, BitMEX is closing, Satsuma is liquidating, and Smarter Web sold Bitcoin. The old guard is packing up. Plus: BlackRock and Strategy funded Bitcoin's quantum defense, the Clarity Act cleared its last blocker, and Wise debanked Peter McCormack. In this episode of Good…
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We Read Your Hate Mail
The BIP-110 haters found us, so we read the hate mail on air. Plus: privacy coins are crypto's only green category this year, Lyn Alden's $40M Orange Juice, ZachXBT calls every hardware wallet 'complete garbage,' Bitcoin lands on TikTok Shop, and Vibewatch wins a Stacks grant. In this episode of...
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We Actually Read BIP 110
The BIP 110 fight has been all mudslinging, so we did something radical: we actually read the BIP. Why the filters won't work and why it probably ends in a fork. Plus: Strategy's never-sell era is over, a $21M DAO drain that broke no rules, Kraken's $22M Choke Point 2.0 win, and StackingDAO's…
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Everyone Just Launched a Stablecoin
Out of left field: 140+ companies — Visa, Mastercard, Google, Samsung, PayPal, BlackRock, Coinbase, Stripe and more — announced Open USD, one shared stablecoin where the partners keep the reserve earnings. Then came the backlash: firms saying they never signed on, and Circle's CEO firing back....
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They Say Bitcoin Is Dead Again
Bitcoin slipped under $60K and the timeline filled with obituaries — people who bought the $120K top now calling it dead. Brandon and Kate place it right where the four-year cycle predicts: deep in the trenches, with maybe nine more boring months to go. Yet nobody up top is actually capitulating…
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Is Stretch Stretched to Its Limit?
Strategy's 'Stretch' — the STRC preferred stock built to trade near $100 — cratered to an all-time low of $82.53 this week, and the timeline declared it the next Ponzi. Brandon and Kate dig into whether Stretch is being stretched to its limit, plus a quiet week of buys, Illinois's punishing new...
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Saylor Says He Never Sold a Sat
A week after Strategy quietly sold 32 BTC, Saylor tweeted he's 'never sold a single sat.' Brandon and Kate call out the goalpost-moving, react to a Saylor clip, then run the tape: Strategy buys 1,550 BTC, Strive needles back, Botanix shuts down its whole network, Coinbase hands AI agents your...
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Claude Found a Zcash Counterfeiting Bug
Kate's out sick, so Brandon flies solo. The headline: a researcher used Claude Opus 4.8 to find a counterfeiting bug in Zcash's shielded pool that could've minted unlimited coins undetectably — ZEC fell 30%. Plus a Bitcoin selloff below $60K, Strategy's quiet sale, and Lava's Bitcoin-back card.…
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Someone Burned 107 Bitcoin
Someone moved 107 Bitcoin — nearly $8 million — out of ten-year-old, Mt. Gox-era addresses and torched it in a single burst of transactions on Monday. No note, no explanation. Brandon and Kate run the theories, then work through a packed week of treasury moves, Kraken's "native Bitcoin" yield...
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Inside Hermetica's hBTC — with Jakob Schillinger
Brandon sits down with Jakob Schillinger, founder and CEO of Hermetica, on the day they raise the hBTC cap from 50 to 75 BTC — and unpack how Michael Saylor's STRC quietly became a yield engine for Bitcoin-backed dollars. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Jakob discuss: Jakob's...
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The Feds Want 1 Million Bitcoin
A bipartisan duo just introduced a bill to codify a 1M-BTC Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into law — with a mandatory 20-year holding period and self-custody protections for everyday Americans. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss: 🍕 Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day — 16 years since...
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Claude Cracked a Bitcoin Wallet
A guy who lost access to ~5 BTC for 11 years used Claude Code to recover it — and the crypto internet lost its mind. But did Claude actually break Bitcoin? Brandon and Kate unpack what really happened. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss: Saylor and Strategy float the…
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Hard Forking for Satoshi's Coins
Paul Sztorc is hard forking Bitcoin — and the plan involves reassigning Satoshi's coins. Brandon and Kate break down the most chaotic week of news in months. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss: Public companies stack: Strategy adds 3,273 BTC (now 818,334 total), Strive...
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Did we just find Satoshi?
A new documentary dropped claiming Satoshi Nakamoto was actually two people — Hal Finney and Len Sassaman — and the Bitcoin world is buzzing. Plus: Strategy just overtook BlackRock, and the US Air Force is running a Bitcoin node. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:...
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Bitcoin DeFi Is No Longer an Experiment ft. Andriy Velykyy of Allbridge
Allbridge cofounder Andriy Velykyy joins Brandon and Kate to unpack what real Circle-issued USDC on Bitcoin actually means — and why he's calling this the moment Bitcoin DeFi stops being an experiment. In this bonus episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate sit down with Allbridge cofounder...
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Should We Freeze Satoshi's Coins?
A quantum computer could steal $74 billion in Satoshi's Bitcoin — and the only proposed fix might be worse than the problem. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss: BlackRock's IBIT sees over $700M in inflows this week — and Strategy adds 13,927 BTC, now holding over…
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Has Bitcoin Been Quantum Resistant This Whole Time?
Starkware just dropped a white paper that makes Bitcoin transactions quantum-resistant today — no soft fork, no protocol changes — but it'll cost you $150 per transaction in GPU compute. Meanwhile, the New York Times thinks they've finally figured out who Satoshi is. In this episode of Good For...
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Q Day Just Got Closer
Google just moved the quantum computing timeline from 2035 to 2029 — and Bitcoin's clock is ticking. Plus, the FBI created crypto tokens as part of a DOJ sting, and the Department of Labor just named Bitcoin in a landmark 401(k) rule. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:...
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Extreme Fear, Extreme Building
The cost to mine one Bitcoin just hit $80K — but BTC is trading at $66K. Miners are bleeding out, infrastructure is booming, and crypto-backed mortgages just became a reality. Welcome to the most confusing time in Bitcoin. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss: Strategy…
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Two Years Deep
Brandon got laid off from Stacks Labs, cried on air celebrating two years of Good For Bitcoin, and the SEC just dropped the biggest crypto clarity bomb the industry has ever seen — this one hits different. In this episode, Brandon and Kate discuss: Celebrating two years of Good For Bitcoin Stacks...
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Banks Don't Want to Kill Stablecoins — Just Yours
Wells Fargo is lobbying to kill stablecoin yield while quietly filing a trademark for their own stablecoin — and they're not the only bank playing both sides. Plus, Kraken becomes the first crypto company with a Federal Reserve master account, and the guy who stole $40M from the US government's...
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Are Ordinals Dead?
Magic Eden is shuttering its Bitcoin and EVM marketplaces to go all-in on Solana — so is this the end of Ordinals? Plus, Block lays off nearly half its workforce citing AI, and the Jane Street price suppression conspiracy heats up. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:...
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The tourists have left, the AI agents have arrived
Fear and greed is at 7 out of 100, BTC treasury companies are merging, and the stablecoin interest fight just got a White House intervention — but Brandon and Kate have never been more bullish on building in Bitcoin. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss: AI agents taking...
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Be greedy when others are fearful!
Bitcoin is under $70K, fear is everywhere, and public companies are panic-selling — but is this actually the best time to be buying? Brandon and Kate break down who's selling, who's stacking, and the massive Fireblocks news that could change everything for Stacks. In this episode of Good For...
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If you’re in Bitcoin, pivot to Stablecoins???
Brandon and Kate play with the idea that Bitcoin builders should “pivot to stablecoins” — not as literal advice, but as a way to surface where user demand, liquidity, and regulatory attention are actually concentrating today. The conversation unpacks why stablecoins keep dominating payments and…
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Getting more Clarity on the Clarity Act
Brandon and Kate dig into the Clarity Act to separate headlines from substance — what the bill actually proposes, how it fits into the broader U.S. regulatory landscape, and why clarity (or lack thereof) matters for Bitcoin, stablecoins, and builders. They walk through the tradeoffs, the…
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We’re so back! Here’s everything you missed over the holiday
Brandon and Kate are back after the holiday break to catch up on everything you might have missed — from Bitcoin price action and renewed market energy, to major ecosystem updates across Bitcoin L2s, stablecoins, and treasury companies. They reset the board for the new year and talk through what...
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What was BEST for Bitcoin in 2025?
Brandon and Kate wrap the year by reflecting on what was actually best for Bitcoin in 2025 — separating signal from noise across price action, ETFs, treasury companies, Bitcoin L2s, stablecoins, and developer momentum. They look back at the narratives that mattered, the ones that faded, and what...
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Earning on-chain reputation with ZeroAuthority
Brandon is joined by Zero from Zero Authority to explore how on-chain reputation works, why identity matters for Bitcoin-native apps, and how reputation systems can unlock better incentives across DeFi, governance, and community coordination on Stacks. Topics Discussed 🧠 What on-chain reputation...
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Are Bitcoin Treasury Companies about to pump our bags?
Brandon and Kate tackle the big question on everyone’s mind: are Bitcoin treasury companies finally about to pump our bags, or are they still a structural risk to the market? They walk through fresh announcements from corporate buyers, revisit earlier fears about debt-fueled treasury strategies,...
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DevConnect Recap, USDC on Stacks, The rise and fall of mNAV
Brandon and Kate recap their time at Devconnect, share how it shifted their perspective on builders and culture across chains, and then dive into the big news of USDC coming to Stacks via Circle’s new xReserve product. They wrap with a deep dive into mNAV — a metric for valuing Bitcoin treasury...
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Bitflow’s HODLMM ft. @StacksDeveloper, Clarity 4 goes live, SoFi Crypto
Brandon and Kate sit down with Dylan from Bitflow to unpack HODLMM — a Bitcoin-native market-making strategy built on Stacks — and how Clarity 4’s new security features make “DeFi for grownups” possible, before shifting into a news roundup covering Strategy’s latest BTC buy, Square Bitcoin going...
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Bitcoin’s Silent IPO, WalletConnect integrates Stacks, $STRC surpasses $100
Brandon and Kate break down fresh Bitcoin headlines and market structure signals — from a new 397 BTC treasury move and dividend-style BTC exposure talk, to Kazakhstan’s proposed $1B crypto reserve fund, custody and withdrawal UX, and how “post-ETF world” dynamics are shaping whale behavior and...
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Happy Halloween! Dual Stacking launches, Bitcoin CashJr, Strategy gets a B-
Brandon and Kate bring Halloween energy to the Bitcoin world — celebrating the official launch of dual stacking, breaking down Bitcoin’s latest market movements, and exploring how Cashjr’s Bitcoin strategy upgrade is reshaping yield opportunities across the ecosystem. Topics Discussed 🎃…
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Trump pardons CZ, Bitcoin whales move to IBIT, State of Crypto from a16z
Brandon and Kate unpack a whirlwind week in crypto — from headlines about a potential Trump pardon for CZ, to whale flows rotating into BlackRock’s iBIT spot Bitcoin ETF, to the biggest takeaways from a16z’s latest State of Crypto report — and what all of it means for builders on Bitcoin and...
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Square Bitcoin, Dual Stacking, US seizes $15B in BTC
Good For Bitcoin — Square, Bitcoin, Dual Stacking & U.S. Seizes $1.5B in BTC Brandon and Kate kick off this week’s Good For Bitcoin with fresh energy — experimenting with new livestream platforms, diving into Square’s bold Bitcoin integration, the evolution of dual stacking, and the U.S....
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A new era of Good For Bitcoin, Uptober teases a new ATH
In this episode of Good for Bitcoin, hosts Brandon and Kate discuss their transition to independence, their new roles with Stacks Labs, and the importance of authentic storytelling in crypto marketing. They cover significant news in the Bitcoin ecosystem, including public companies' Bitcoin...
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Unraveling the Knots drama with @cbspears
In this episode of Good for Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate are joined by Charlie, a Bitcoin mining expert, to discuss the ongoing drama surrounding Luke Dashjr, Ocean Mining, and the implications of arbitrary data on the Bitcoin network. The conversation delves into the centralization of mining, the...
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Stacks CMO, Low-risk DeFi, Cloudflare gets into crypto | Sep 26, 2025
In this episode of Good for Bitcoin, hosts Brandon and Kate discuss various topics surrounding Bitcoin, including the latest developments in meme coins and significant acquisitions in the Bitcoin space. They also delve into Vitalik's article on low-risk DeFi, emerging Bitcoin layers, and...
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sBTC cap removal, Nakamoto gets rekt, Fed cuts rates
In this episode, Brandon and Kate discuss the latest developments in the Bitcoin ecosystem, including the rise of Bitcoin DeFi, the performance of Nakamoto stock, and the implications of recent SEC decisions on crypto ETFs. They also touch on global economic factors such as interest rate cuts and...
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Tether launches USAT, sBTC Cap removal, Kyrgyzstan introduces crypto treasury
In this episode of Good for Bitcoin, hosts Brandon Marshall and Kate discuss the latest developments in the Bitcoin ecosystem, including public company investments, technological advancements, and emerging trends in regulation and accessibility. They emphasize the importance of Bitcoin in...
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