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 Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:
- BTC up 6% on the week past $73K, fear and greed at 16 — still extreme fear
- Strategy buys 4,871 BTC (now 766,970), Strive adds 113 BTC, CanGo sells 2,000 BTC to pay off Bitcoin-backed loans
- Cash App's "Bitcoin faucet" turns out to be marketing promos, not a real faucet
- Experts launches Agent Wallet — a Bitcoin-native agentic wallet with Lightning and self-custody
- AIBTC nearing 1,000 AI agents on Stacks
- Starkware's Quantum Safe Bitcoin (QSB) — quantum-resistant transactions with no fork required, $150/tx in GPU compute, and Google's 2029 quantum timeline
- New York Times claims Adam Back is Satoshi Nakamoto — and Jameson Lopp hints he may actually know
- Treasury designates Robinhood and BNY Mellon as vendors for Trump Accounts
- White House paper debunks bank fears about stablecoin yield, FDIC proposes GENIUS Act framework
- Drift on Solana hacked for $285M by North Korean Lazarus group after a 6-month social engineering campaign
- Morgan Stanley's Bitcoin ETF (MSBT) launches — best first day of any ETF they've ever launched
- Solo miner mines an entire Bitcoin block worth ~$210-224K
- Iran now seeking $1/barrel of oil through the Strait of Hormuz — paid in Bitcoin
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