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This is a tough question. Took me a few minutes to think about my answer. I like the sats. Tons of comments are probably more fun. But in my mind, I want the sats.
We could make one of these for SN:
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5 points for each mention of "Satoshi", "Rothbard" or "Finney".
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20 points for suggesting a new layer 2.
It seems like it was a known thing (at least since March 2024). I'm surprised I had never heard of it before.
I read this article a few days ago. I'm glad you posted it here.
Sure we can coordinate like never before, and bitcoin is perhaps the best example of that, but I do wonder what the fighting stage of bitcoin looks like. Is it black market bitcoin? Is it using bitcoin to trade and ignoring whatever controls are placed on it?
Do you think tech solutions will outpace government abilities to exert control over us or will it be more of a fight between people who want freedom and the governments that want to control them?
Tether just released its quarterly attestation for Q2 2025.Highlights as of 30th June 2025:
- 157.1B total issued USDt, end of Q2 2025.
- 162.5B total assets/reserves, end of Q2 2025.
- 5.47B excess reserves, on top of the 100% reserves in liquid assets that back all issued tokens, end of Q2 2025.
- 127B+ in US treasuries (direct + indirect exposure), end of Q2 2025.
- 4.9B net profits, in Q2 2025 (5.7B YTD)
- 13B USDt supply increase, in Q2 2025 (20B increase YTD).
USDt growth is accelerating, leading the market with a 100B delta with the second largest stablecoin.In the upcoming quarter Tether will focus on a new venture in the U.S, to build a best-in-class product suite (stablecoins plus more), designed for the specific, already highly efficient, market.Thank you very much for the continued support ❤️
I use this all the time. If you use SN in multiple tabs, you can kinda save several drafts...although they are gone if I close the tab.
Most subjects have an online community. It's a feature of the internet (or perhaps just social media) that these communities aren't all on the same platforms.
- The bitcoiners are using nostr and x mostly (reddit a little, but my experience is there is better info on the first two).
- The environmental people are all on LinkedIn.
- Private equity investors are using private forums.
The hardest part is figuring out where the community is. Once you have a line on that, you can listen in and usually get a crash course on what you need to know just by following along with the conversation. I find that lurking for a while usually reveals where cutting edge stuff is happening (discords, mailing lists, real life meetups).
Last few months have really felt like that, haven't they? Even though this stuff has been building for a long while, all of a sudden it's starting to materialize in real life: age verification for websites, laws about self-custody and how to use bitcoin, privacy tech being criminalized.
The statement "since acquiring a treasury company would likely be cheaper than trying to acquire a large stock of bitcoin in the market" seems pretty difficult to evaluate.
If we can all imagine that acquiring a large stock of btc on the spot market might distort the price, wouldn't there be enough of a bid for the acquisition of bitcoin treasury companies that their stock also carries a premium?