TheCryptoDegen

Iran just showed the world why Bitcoin is the hardest money.

A student wakes up in Tehran and the phone is dead. Not “slow.” Dead. Iran is in a near-total internet blackout connectivity reported around 4% of normal. (The Washington Post)

The next problem isn’t politics. It’s money.

If the internet is off, payments don’t clear. If protests spread, accounts get watched. If the state feels threatened, banks become a control surface. And if the currency is melting, your savings bleed while you’re trying to stay safe. In late January the rial hit a record low around 1,500,000 per dollar. (Al Jazeera)

This is the war lesson: in conflict, money stops being neutral. The rails become permissioned. Access becomes conditional.

Bitcoin wins here for one simple reason: it’s bearer money.

Not “a bank account.” Not “a promise.” An asset you can hold yourself, move without asking, and take across borders in your head. It doesn’t fix war. But it does remove a key weapon: the ability to trap people inside a broken currency and a controlled banking system.

The best money is the money that still works when institutions don’t.

21 million units. No CEO. No freeze function. No hotline.

This is the ad Bitcoin never had to buy. Price doesn’t reflect it yet.

It will.

Most people don’t know this, but Bitcoin has a hidden message that can never be deleted

Bitcoin block 666,666 was mined on January 18, 2021

It contains a message permanently written into the blockchain

Using Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN, the miner embedded a Bible verse directly into the block’s data

“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Romans 12:21

To make it happen, they paid over 5x the normal fee just to guarantee inclusion in that exact block

The transaction is linked to wallets named “GoD” and “BibLE”, verifiable on any public block explorer

Once it’s there, it can never be removed

2014, Dell started accepting Bitcoin.

And Someone bought servers for 85 BTC worth $50K at the time.

Today, that same 85 BTC is worth over $6,200,000.

It makes me wonder what he moved on to.

In the last 2 days, two major quantum-related updates came out for Bitcoin.

One prototype lets users recover their funds if quantum computers break current signatures.

Another proposal shows Bitcoin transactions can be made quantum-safe without changing the protocol.
#quantumcomputers

12 years ago, he bought $50,000 of Bitcoin at $100 each.

Today, it's worth over $30 million.

A Malaysian entrepreneur bought AI.com for $11 million in 2021. He sold it for $70 million four years later. The man who bought it already owns the most visited crypto website on earth.

> Arsyan Ismail picked up AI.com in 2021 from a domain portfolio firm.

> He listed it for $100 million in March 2025.

> Kris Marszalek called him. The CEO of Crypto.com wanted it.

> They settled on $70 million. Paid entirely in cryptocurrency. No bank involved.

> It was the most expensive domain sale ever publicly disclosed.

> The previous record was $49.7 million for CarInsurance.com in 2010.

> Then both men went silent. No press release or public announcement.

> For nearly 10 months nobody knew the deal had happened.

> Then Marszalek ran a Super Bowl ad for AI.com in February 2026.

> The site crashed within minutes.

> His phone started filling with offers to flip the domain for more than he paid.

> He ignored every single one because he had done this before and knew it's worth.

> In 2018 he paid $12 million for Crypto.com when the domain belonged to a cryptography professor who swore it was not for sale.

> Crypto.com now has 150 million users. Most of them found it by typing the word "crypto" into Google.

> Kris Marszalek now personally owns Crypto.com and AI.com.

> The two most valuable category domains of the two biggest technological shifts of the last 20 years.

> Both bought when people thought he was crazy. Both paid for in crypto.

He understood that whoever owns the word owns the category. He already proved it once. Nobody laughed at him the second time.

Someone stole a Bitcoin ATM and tried to get the coins out 😂
#bitcoin

New York Times article, published today, concludes that Adam Back, a 55-year-old British computer scientist and cryptographer, is Satoshi Nakamoto.

No doubt there will be a new bull market with new ATHs

but IMO bitcoin will go lower🔵before next bull market🔴

* Note color scale is different in this chart: drawdown (BTC price / ATH) instead of relative strength index (RSI). Easier to calculate and easier to understand.

Sixteen years ago today, a user on the Bitcointalk forum officially closed an auction selling 10,000 bitcoin. The reason? No one bid the minimum of $50.

Grayscale tracked the Top 15 cryptos every year since 2018.

Every single coin got replaced. XRP, Ethereum, Cardano, Litecoin, IOTA, NEM, Dash... all rotated out.

New names show up every cycle. Solana, TRON, Hyperliquid. They come and go.

Only one has held #1 for 8 straight years without ever moving.
#Bitcoin.

There is no second best. There is no competitor. There is no "next Bitcoin."

There's $BTC, and there's everything else.

Thinking about the story of Bitcoin…

> Anonymous engineer solves double spend problem
> Writes 9 pages to explain it
> Mines using their own electricity
> Disppears
> Becomes 10th richest person in the world
> Never spends a coin
> Identity remains a mystery 17 years later
#BTCBackTo70K

Thankyou for 3k followers.

THIS IS INSANE.🤯

North Korea stole $285 million in 12 minutes.

Drift is the biggest trading platform on Solana.

The code was fine. Two audits found nothing wrong. North Korea didn’t touch the code. They went after the people.

They made a fake token called CarbonVote. Put in a few thousand dollars to make it look real. Drift’s system thought it was worth hundreds of millions.

Then they got the people who held the keys to sign off on transactions weeks before the actual attack. Nobody knew what they were approving.

April 1: They pressed go. $285 million drained in 12 minutes. Every vault emptied.

Token dropped 40%. The platform lost half its TVL overnight.

Elliptic and TRM Labs both say it’s North Korea.

Same pattern as the $1.4 billion Bybit hack last year. Same tools. Same speed.

North Korea took $2 billion in crypto in 2025. That’s 60% of everything stolen in crypto worldwide.

The US says that money funds their weapons program. And they’re doing it again this year.

No bug. No exploit. They faked a token, fooled real people, and took $285 million.

They spent months building trust. Then 12 minutes destroying it.

That’s how it works now.
#Hacked

In 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto listed himself as a Japanese man born on April 5, 1975. That would make him 51 today.

Happy B-Day, legend 🫡
#BTC #satoshiNakamato

Today is Satoshi Nakamoto's birthday, except nobody knows if that's actually true.

> The date he listed, April 5 1975, wasn't random.

> On April 5 1933, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102.

> It made it illegal for American citizens to own gold.

> The government could seize your savings. Legally. $10,000 fine and 10 years in prison if you refused.

> 1975 was the year that law was finally repealed and Americans could own gold again.

> He chose the exact date the government criminalised financial freedom and the exact year it was given back.

> That was his only biographical detail. Everything else is unknown.

> In 2008, while banks were being bailed out with taxpayer money and nobody went to jail, he published a 9 page document.

> No name, no face and no institution behind it.

> He embedded one message into Bitcoin's very first block: "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks."

> Built a currency with a hard cap of 21 million that no president, no central bank, no government could ever change.

> Then disappeared.

> His wallet holds 1.1 MILLION Bitcoin worth tens of BILLIONS today.

> He has never touched a single coin.

> The man who could be one of the richest people on earth chose a birthday that was a political statement and then vanished forever.

Happy birthday Satoshi 🎂

Meet the 22 year old crypto founder who faked his own suicide on livestream just to pump a memecoin

Jeffy Yu (the co-founder of Zerebro):

1) His token was bleeding hard and the community was turning on him big time

2) He hops on what looks like a normal Pumpfun livestream

3) Suddenly stages a graphic suicide, shooting himself in the head right on camera

4) Had a dead man's switch ready so an obituary drops calling him a "martyr of imagination"

5) A wild manifesto goes out talking about "Legacoins" (tokens that live forever after you die)

6) He immediately launches $LLJEFFY as his final art piece and eternal grave in cyberspace

7) The coin explodes over 2100 percent and hits 105 million market cap in just hours

8) Wallets tied to him dump a ton of the old $ZEREBRO for over 1.2 million in SOL

9) A few days later reporters track him down

10) They find the guy alive and well, chilling at his parents house in flip flops like nothing happened

11) The obituary gets quietly deleted and the whole thing blows up as one of the darkest exits in memecoin history

Crypto is actually cooked.

Bitcoin’s big price drivers:

Sustained ETF inflows
Direct, measurable demand hitting a limited float.

More corporate and sovereign adoption
Big balance-sheet buyers keep removing supply.

Real regulatory clarity from the CLARITY Act
Could unlock much larger pools of capital once it actually passes.

Any Fed pivot once energy prices cool
A macro tailwind, but less immediate than flows.

Post-tax-season liquidity in mid-April
Helpful at the margin, but likely the smallest and shortest-lived driver.

HISTORY: Hal Finney in 2011 explaining how Bitcoin is created and transferred.