![KYC Bitcoin: Individuals are on Lists](https://www.discreetlog.com/content/images/2023/02/binancekycleak.webp)

**_What is KYC/AML?_**

*   The acronym stands for Know Your Customer / Anti Money Laundering.
*   In practice it stands for the surveillance measures companies are often compelled to take against their customers by financial regulators.
*   Methods differ but often include: Passport Scans, Driver License Uploads, Social Security Numbers, Home Address, Phone Number, Face Scans.
*   Bitcoin companies will also store all withdrawal and deposit addresses which can then be used to track bitcoin transactions on the bitcoin block chain.
*   This data is then stored and shared. Regulations often require companies to hold this information for a set number of years but in practice users should assume this data will be held indefinitely. Data is often stored insecurely, which results in frequent [hacks and leaks](https://www.newsweek.com/binance-hack-telegram-kyc-data-extortion-changpeng-zhao-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-1452989?ref=discreetlog.com).
*   KYC/AML data collection puts all honest users at risk of theft, extortion, and persecution while being ineffective at stopping crime. Criminals often use [counterfeit, bought, or stolen](https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/10/19/for-200-you-can-trade-crypto-with-a-fake-id/?ref=discreetlog.com) credentials to get around the requirements. Criminals can buy "verified" accounts for as [little as $200](https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/10/19/for-200-you-can-trade-crypto-with-a-fake-id/?ref=discreetlog.com). Furthermore, billions of people are excluded from financial services as a result of KYC/AML requirements.

During the early days of bitcoin most services did not require this sensitive user data, but as adoption increased so did the surveillance measures. At this point, **most large bitcoin companies are collecting and storing massive lists of bitcoiners, our sensitive personal information, and our transaction history.**

**Lists of Bitcoiners**

KYC/AML policies are a direct attack on bitcoiners. Lists of bitcoiners and our transaction history will inevitably be used against us.

Once you are on a list with your bitcoin transaction history that record will always exist. Generally speaking, tracking bitcoin is based on probability analysis of ownership change. Surveillance firms use various heuristics to determine if you are sending bitcoin to yourself or if ownership is actually changing hands.  You can obtain better privacy going forward by using collaborative transactions such as coinjoin to break this probability analysis.

Fortunately, you can buy bitcoin without providing intimate personal information. Tools such as [peach](https://peachbitcoin.com/?ref=discreetlog.com), [hodlhodl](https://hodlhodl.com/?ref=discreetlog.com), [robosats](https://learn.robosats.com/?ref=discreetlog.com), [azteco](https://azte.co/?ref=discreetlog.com) and [bisq](https://bisq.network/?ref=discreetlog.com) help; mining is also a solid option: anyone can plug a miner into power and internet and earn bitcoin by mining privately.

You can also earn bitcoin by providing goods and/or services that can be purchased with bitcoin. Long term, circular economies will mitigate this threat: most people will not buy bitcoin - they will earn bitcoin - most people will not sell bitcoin - they will spend bitcoin.

**There is no such thing as KYC or No KYC bitcoin, there are bitcoiners on lists and those that are not on lists.**

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*   RoboSats v0.7.7-alpha is now available!

> NOTE: "This version of clients is not compatible with older versions of coordinators. Coordinators must upgrade first, make sure you don't upgrade your client while this is marked as pre-release."

*   This version brings a new and improved coordinators view with reviews signed both by the robot and the coordinator, adds market price sources in coordinator profiles, shows a correct warning for canceling non-taken orders after a payment attempt, adds Uzbek sum currency, and includes package library updates for coordinators.

![RoboSats v0.7.7-alpha: New Coordinators View (UPDATED)](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/images/2025/04/image-54.png)

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What's new
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*   New coordinators view (see the picture above).
*   Available coordinator reviews signed by both the robot and the coordinator.
*   Coordinators now display market price sources in their profiles.

![RoboSats v0.7.7-alpha: New Coordinators View (UPDATED)](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/images/2025/04/image-55.png)

Source: RoboSats.

*   Fix for wrong message on cancel button when taking an order. Users are now warned if they try to cancel a non taken order after a payment attempt.
*   Uzbek sum currency now available.
*   For coordinators: library updates.
*   Add docker frontend ([#1861](https://github.com/RoboSats/robosats/pull/1861)).
*   Add order review token ([#1869](https://github.com/RoboSats/robosats/pull/1869)).
*   Add UZS migration ([#1875](https://github.com/RoboSats/robosats/pull/1875)).
*   Fixed tests review ([#1878](https://github.com/RoboSats/robosats/pull/1878)).
*   Nostr pubkey for Robot ([#1887](https://github.com/RoboSats/robosats/pull/1887)).

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[![Good Morning, Bitcoin - Saturday, April 26th, 2025](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/images/2025/04/image-50.png)](https://mempool.space/)

Headlines
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*   **Spiral renews support for Dan Gould and Joschisan.** The organization has renewed support for _Dan Gould_, who is developing the [Payjoin Dev Kit (PDK)](https://payjoindevkit.org/2025/03/18/the-evolution-of-payjoin), and [_Joschisan_](https://xcancel.com/spiralbtc/status/1914363508126515567), a [Fedimint](https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint) developer focused on simplifying federations.
*   **Metaplanet buys another 145 BTC.** The Tokyo-listed company [has purchased](https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/04/24/metaplanet-hits-5-000-btc-mark-amid-strategic-treasury-expansion) an additional 145 BTC for $13.6 million. Their total bitcoin holdings now stand at 5,000 coins, worth around $428.1 million.
*   **Semler Scientific has increased its bitcoin holdings to 3,303 BTC.** The company acquired an additional 111 BTC at an average price of $90,124. The purchase was funded through proceeds from an at-the-market offering and cash reserves, as stated in a [press release](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/semler-scientific-announces-updated-btc--atm-activity-purchased-additional-111-btc-now-holds-3-303-btc-ytd-btc-yield-of-23-5-302438131.html).
*   **The Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) Bill 2025 introduced in Kenya.** The [new legislation](https://bitcoinke.io/2025/04/the-vasp-kenya-license-requirements/) aims to establish a comprehensive legal framework for licensing, regulating, and supervising virtual asset service providers (VASPs), with strict penalties for non-compliant entities.
*   **Russian government to launch a cryptocurrency exchange.** The country's Ministry of Finance and Central Bank [announced](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/russias-finance-ministry-and-central-bank-to-launch-crypto-exchange-for-super-qualified-investors) plans to establish a trading platform for "highly qualified investors" that "will legalize crypto assets and bring crypto operations out of the shadows."
*   **All virtual asset service providers expect to be fully compliant with the Travel Rule by the end of 2025.** A survey by financial surveillance specialist [Notabene](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/04/23/travel-rule-compliance-surges-on-new-regs-stablecoin-payments-notabene-says) reveals that 90% of virtual asset service providers (VASPs) expect full Travel Rule compliance by mid-2025, with all aiming for compliance by year-end. The survey also shows a significant rise in VASPs blocking withdrawals until beneficiary information is confirmed, increasing from 2.9% in 2024 to 15.4% now. Additionally, about 20% of VASPs return deposits if originator data is missing.
*   **UN claims Bitcoin mining is a "powerful tool" for money laundering.** _The Rage_'s [analysis](https://www.therage.co/un-mining-money-laundering/) suggests that the recent United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report on crime in South-East Asia makes little sense and hints at the potential introduction of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) measures at the mining level.
*   **Riot Platforms has obtained a $100 million credit facility from Coinbase Credit**, using bitcoin as collateral for short-term funding to support its expansion. The firm's CEO, _Jason Les,_ [stated](https://www.riotplatforms.com/riot-platforms-announces-100-million-credit-facility-with-coinbase/) that this facility is crucial for diversifying financing sources and driving long-term stockholder value through strategic growth initiatives.
*   **Bitdeer raises $179M in loans and equity amid Bitcoin chip push.** _The Miner Mag_ [reports](https://www.theminermag.com/news/2025-04-22/bitdeer-bitcoin-loan-sealminer) that Bitdeer entered into a loan agreement with its affiliate Matrixport for up to $200 million in April, as disclosed in its [annual report](https://ir.bitdeer.com/static-files/fd6af83f-6142-48aa-b15d-5bc3bc83de96) filed on Monday.
*   **Federal Reserve retracts guidance discouraging banks from engaging in 'crypto.'** The U.S. Federal Reserve [withdrew](https://www.theblock.co/post/351943/federal-reserve-retracts-guidance-discouraging-banks-from-engaging-in-crypto) guidance that discouraged banks from crypto and stablecoin activities, as [announced](https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcreg20250424a.htm) by its Board of Governors on Thursday. This includes rescinding a 2022 supervisory letter requiring prior notification of crypto activities and 2023 stablecoin requirements.

> "As a result, the Board will no longer expect banks to provide notification and will instead monitor banks' crypto-asset activities through the normal supervisory process," reads the FED statement.

*   **UAE-based Islamic bank ruya launches Shari’ah-compliant bitcoin investing.** The bank has become the world’s first Islamic bank to provide direct access to virtual asset investments, including Bitcoin, via its mobile app, [per](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/ruya-becomes-first-islamic-bank-to-offer-bitcoin-and-virtual-asset-investments) _Bitcoin Magazine._
*   **U.S. 'crypto' scam losses amounted to $9.3B in 2024.** The US The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) [has reported](https://www.ic3.gov/AnnualReport/Reports/2024_IC3Report.pdf) $9.3 billion losses in cryptocurrency-related scams in 2024, noting a troubling trend of scams targeting older Americans, which accounted for over $2.8 billion of those losses.

![Good Morning, Bitcoin - Saturday, April 26th, 2025](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/images/2025/04/image-49.png)

Source: [FBI.](https://www.ic3.gov/AnnualReport/Reports/2024_IC3Report.pdf)

*   **North Korean hackers establish fake companies to target 'crypto' developers.** Silent Push researchers [reported](https://www.silentpush.com/blog/contagious-interview-front-companies/) that hackers linked to the Lazarus Group created three shell companies, two of which are based in the U.S., with the objective of spreading malware through deceptive job interview scams aimed at individuals seeking jobs in cryptocurrency companies.
*   **Citrea deployed its Clementine Bridge on the Bitcoin testnet.** The bridge [utilizes](https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/04/23/bitcoin-rollup-citrea-deploys-bridge-to-tackle-collateral-bottleneck-of-using-btc-in-defi) the BitVM2 programming language to inherit validity from Bitcoin, allegedly providing "the safest and most trust-minimized way to use BTC in decentralized finance."
*   **Hesperides University offers a Master’s degree in Bitcoin.** _Bitcoin Magazine_ [reports](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/university-of-the-hesperides-launches-first-spanish-language-masters-program-focused-exclusively-on-bitcoin) the launch of the first-ever Spanish-language Master’s program dedicated exclusively to Bitcoin. Starting April 28, 2025, this fully online program will equip professionals with technical, economic, legal, and philosophical skills to excel in the Bitcoin era.
*   **BTC in D.C. event** is set to take place on September 30 - October 1 in Washington, D.C. Learn more about this initiative [here](https://btcindc.com/).

[![Good Morning, Bitcoin - Saturday, April 26th, 2025](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/images/2025/04/image-44.png)](https://xcancel.com/PavelTheCoder/status/1915592501546619163)

Use the tools
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*   [**Bitcoin Keeper**](https://medium.com/bitbees/bitcoin-keeper-rebrand-new-logo-same-commitment-6009a88f7b49) just got a new look. [Version 2.2.0](https://github.com/bithyve/bitcoin-keeper/releases) of the mobile multisig app brought a new branding design, along with a [Keeper Private](https://medium.com/bitbees/introducing-keeper-private-where-wealth-meets-sovereignty-278e93332b32) tier, testnet support, ability to import and export [BIP-329](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0329.mediawiki) labels, and the option to use a Server Key with multiple users.
    *   Earlier this month the project also announced [Keeper Learn](https://medium.com/bitbees/introducing-keeper-learn-your-simple-expert-guided-path-to-understanding-bitcoin-be53470be069) service, offering clear and guided Bitcoin learning sessions for both groups and individuals.
*   [**Keeper Desktop v0.2.2**](https://github.com/bithyve/keeper-desktop/releases/tag/keeper-desktop-v0.2.2), a companion desktop app for Bitcoin Keeper mobile app, received a renewed branding update, too.

![Good Morning, Bitcoin - Saturday, April 26th, 2025](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/images/2025/04/image-45.png)

The evolution of Bitcoin Keeper logo. Source: [BitHyve blog](https://medium.com/bitbees/bitcoin-keeper-rebrand-new-logo-same-commitment-6009a88f7b49).

*   [**Blockstream Green Desktop v2.0.25**](https://github.com/Blockstream/green_qt/releases) updates GDK to v0.75.1 and fixes amount parsing issues when switching from fiat denomination to Liquid asset.
*   [**Lightning Loop v0.31.0-beta**](https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop/releases/tag/v0.31.0-beta) enhances the `loop listswaps` command by improving the ability to filter the response.
*   [**Lightning-kmp v1.10.0**](https://github.com/ACINQ/lightning-kmp/releases), an implementation of the Lightning Network in Kotlin, is now available.
*   [**LND v0.19.0-beta.rc3**](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.19.0-beta.rc3), the latest beta release candidate of LND is now ready for testing.
*   [**ZEUS v0.11.0-alpha2**](https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.11.0-alpha2) is now available for testing, too. It's nuts.
*   [**JoinMarket Fidelity Bond Simulator**](https://m0wer.github.io/joinmarket-fidelity-bond-simulator/) helps potential JoinMarket makers evaluate their competitive position in the market based on fidelity bonds.
*   [**UTXOscope**](https://github.com/Drew72-ita/UTXOscope) is a text-only Bitcoin blockchain analysis tool that visualizes price dynamics using only on-chain data. The


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#Bitcoin BTC/SEK hourly price
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1 BTC: 1,075,090 sek | 24hr: -1.24%
1 SEK: 93 sats
Market cap: 21,419,270,279,233 sek

Updated: 2025-10-14 | 07:01 CEST


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The current price of Bitcoin is ~$113103.80

Block Height : 918975

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tags: From bitcoin treasury strategies reaching institutional tipping points to the erosion of civil liberties through digital infrastructure, here are the most significant predictions that emerged.

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### Digital ID Implementation Will Accelerate Globally as Countries Fight Dollar Stablecoin Capital Flight - Whitney Webb & Mark Goodwin

![This Week's Top Predictions](https://www.tftc.io/content/images/2025/09/terribletrader_digital_ID_surveillance_state_CBDC_dystopian_c_459a326e-a00c-4590-9b1b-d593e6370bea_3.png)

Webb and Goodwin predict that within the next 12-24 months, we'll see a dramatic acceleration in digital ID implementation worldwide - not primarily in the US first, but in countries desperately trying to prevent capital flight to dollar stablecoins. They point to Vietnam's recent closure of 84 million bank accounts as the canary in the coal mine, with citizens only able to regain banking access by submitting to biometric verification. The mechanism is clear: as dollar stablecoins proliferate globally and offer yield, why would anyone hold depreciating local currencies? Webb notes that the ECB is already panicking about this dynamic, stating "we're screwed if we let dollar stablecoins take over." The prediction is that countries will implement increasingly draconian digital ID requirements to maintain control over their monetary systems, using the Genius Act's passage in the US as political cover. This creates a paradox where US dollar dominance actually accelerates surveillance infrastructure globally.

### Pre-Crime AI Surveillance Will Become Normalized Following Manufactured Crisis Events - Whitney Webb & Mark Goodwin

The most chilling prediction centers on the normalization of pre-crime surveillance infrastructure within the next 2-3 years. Webb traces how every administration since 9/11 has expanded domestic terror frameworks, and predicts that recent events will be used to justify AI-powered predictive policing at scale. The infrastructure already exists: Palantir's pre-crime algorithms, social media monitoring systems, and William Barr's 2019 legalization of pre-crime arrests. Webb predicts we'll see a major "galvanizing event" that will reduce public resistance to having AI scan all social media posts for "early neuropsychiatric warning signs." The mechanism already exists through companies like Carbine (funded by Jeffrey Epstein) that have quietly taken over 911 systems across America. Once normalized, Webb warns this will extend beyond security into employment: "What happens when it's like, well, if you want to work and have a job and not just have UBI, you need a brain chip?" The timeline accelerates as Palantir's integration with government systems deepens under the current administration.

### Bitcoin Treasury Companies Will See 100x Growth in Fixed Income Adoption Within 10 Years - Jeff Walton

Jeff Walton laid out a compelling case for why Bitcoin-backed securities will completely disrupt the $300 trillion fixed income market over the next decade. He predicts that within 10 years, we'll see a 100-fold increase in the adoption of perpetual preferred equities and other Bitcoin-backed credit instruments. The math is straightforward: these instruments offer 9.5-10% yields while being 8x overcollateralized with Bitcoin, compared to traditional junk bonds offering 7% with far greater risk. As Walton explained, "Capital will move to where it's treated best," and fixed income managers who fail to adopt these instruments will see their clients flee to competitors offering 150+ basis points of additional return with less risk. The key catalyst will be insurance companies and pension funds recognizing that digital risk (Bitcoin volatility) is fundamentally safer than physical risk (corporate bankruptcy, natural disasters). Once credit rating agencies begin rating these instruments, the floodgates will open as institutional mandates allow allocation to rated securities.

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Bitcoin Core contributor Luke Dashjr is developing a mechanism to retroactively remove illegal content from Bitcoin's blockchain using Zero Knowledge Proofs, according to leaked messages reported by The Rage. The proposal would create a multi-sig council with power to delete confirmed transactions containing Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) approximately one hour after confirmation.

While Dashjr claims this would "save Bitcoin," his scheme represents an unprecedented censorship capability that could extend far beyond its stated purpose. The developer, who already runs the censorship-focused OCEAN mining pool and Bitcoin Knots implementation, admits this constitutes "technically a hardfork" – though likely affecting only Knots nodes initially.

Critical details remain murky: Who selects council members? How are ZK proofs managed? What prevents mission creep to other transaction types? Most concerning, Dashjr allegedly mentioned coordinating legal letters to pressure the industry into adopting anti-CSAM measures – essentially manufacturing the crisis his solution would address.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back confirmed OCEAN has contacted rival mining pools about this initiative. The Bitcoin community's response has been overwhelmingly negative, recognizing this as a dangerous precedent that hands governments a ready-made censorship tool while solving a problem that barely exists on Bitcoin's blockchain.

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tags: The acceleration toward the digital ID system is upon us.

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Marty's Bent
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We've been warning for the better part of a year to keep an eye on the conversation around immigration policy in the United States due to the fact that it is the perfect issue to Trojan Horse digital ID policy and thrust it on the masses. There is an obvious problem at the border, tens of millions of illegal immigrants flooded into the country between 2020-2024, and the Trump administration won last year's election by leading with immigration policy and has followed through on that promise. However, it is a great excuse to introduce a digital ID system in the United States.

"To ensure that illegal immigrants aren't taking the jobs of American citizens and leeching of the system without going through the process of getting a visa or becoming a citizen, everyone is going to be issued a digital ID tied to your social security number and some biometric data. You'll use this ID to get a job and do other things within the economy."

That's how it starts, but soon enough there are a number of public catastrophes that "require" a government response that requires a digital ID to access internet services, websites and social media platforms so that "nefarious individuals" can be easily tracked and apprehended before they commit crimes. If the efforts are successful and people welcome the digital ID with open arms or are forcibly pushed in against their will you end up in a completely dystopian system that has ultimate control over many parts of your life.

[![UK To Mandate Digital IDs For Adults](https://www.tftc.io/content/images/2025/09/Screenshot-2025-09-25-at-11.18.16---PM.png)](https://x.com/TFTC21/status/1970943293342310649?ref=tftc.io)

via [TFTC](https://x.com/TFTC21/status/1970943293342310649?ref=tftc.io)

Luckily for us, this hasn't happened in the United States and hopefully it never does. Though, the push for a Real ID for travel and the Treasury Department and FinCen pushing to expand the Patriot Act to include digital assets is a bit worrisome and prerequisites to a full on digital ID system. It will be important to stay vigilant and make sure things don't continue moving toward an even more burdensome surveillance state. Unfortunately for our friends across the pond in the United Kingdom, the era of digital IDs seems to be upon them.

Earlier today, it was announced by the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, that a digital ID system will be made law and it will be mandatory for every British adult to acquire one so that the British government can... "stop the boats" by using the IDs to "stop illegals from working". Not even trying to hide it. This couldn't be more painfully ironic if they tried because Starmer is the leader of the Labour party, which is responsible for the lax immigration policy that has been instituted in the UK for well over a decade. A classic move out of the problem-reaction-solution playbook that maniacal and despotic governments like to use on populaces they'd like to control. Create a massive problem by flooding a small island in the Atlantic with millions of immigrants, give them free benefits and let them run wild, put so much stress on social programs and the economy overall that people get pushed to the point where they hit the streets and begin to try to take matters into their own hands, begin passing speech laws that throw people in cages for questioning the government's policies and highlighting its effects, and then BOOM.

"We can't have you doing that, mate. After years of ignoring the problem we now recognize that it exists. To solve it we're going to need you to look into this orb so that we can tie your iris to your national insurance number. You'll need to use it with everything you do from shopping to creating an account on social media platforms. Don't worry. It's for your safety and the strength of the British economy."

Real shame, innit?

This is not a good day for the British, or humanity at large. The Five Eyes have a very tight bond and it isn't hard to imagine that the other four (the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) are pressured to join the party so that their intelligence sharing is more streamlined. The UK could be the test bed.

Be aware, freaks.

* * *

### Bitcoin Is Creating a "Soft Landing" Through Market Forces

I brought up an interesting parallel during my conversation with Walton - the Biden administration and Fed talked endlessly about engineering a "soft landing" for the economy after COVID stimulus. But Jeff Walton sees something more profound happening: the free market is actually creating its own soft landing by replacing weak collateral with Bitcoin. Rather than relying on top-down monetary policy, companies are voluntarily recapitalizing the financial system with superior assets.

> "If Chevron had spent 25% of their $70 billion buyback on Bitcoin, the value today would be worth more than their market cap."- [Jeff Walton](https://x.com/PunterJeff?ref=tftc.io)

Jeff expanded on this, explaining how Bitcoin-backed instruments provide real stability and yield without depending on uncertain future cash flows. This bottom-up transformation represents true market innovation - not government intervention, but entrepreneurs building better financial infrastructure. The soft landing isn't coming from the Fed; it's coming from Bitcoin treasury companies creating superior products that naturally attract capital.

Check out the [full podcast here](https://youtu.be/EAjpgYWZ2zk?ref=tftc.io) for more on S&P 500 inclusion debates, perpetual preferred mechanics and global risk repricing.

* * *

### Headlines of the Day

[China Ties Kids' School Access to Digital ID](https://x.com/TFTC21/status/1971238356236611881?ref=tftc.io)

[UK Plans Mandatory Digital ID for Adults](https://x.com/TFTC21/status/1971235726307230192?ref=tftc.io)

[Dutch Government Considers Bitcoin Reserve](https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1971223682874999034?ref=tftc.io)

[US Revises Q2 GDP Growth to 3.8 Percent](https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1971201536551428338?ref=tftc.io)

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tags: Bitcoin Safe is a secure, user-friendly Bitcoin savings wallet for all users. It comes with step-by-step setup guides, support for all major hardware signers, transaction visualization, and built-in multisig collaboration tools. Compact Block Filters for enhanced privacy are in development.

content:
[Contribute to keep No Bullshit Bitcoin news going.](https://geyser.fund/project/nobsbitcoin)

*   Version 1.3 of [Bitcoin Safe](https://github.com/andreasgriffin/bitcoin-safe/releases/tag/1.3.0) introduces a redesigned interactive chart, quick receive feature, updated icons, a mempool preview window, support for Child Pays For Parent (CPFP) and testnet4, preconfigured testnet demo wallets, as well as various bug fixes and improvements.

*   Upcoming updates for Bitcoin Safe include [Compact Block Filters](https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/compact-block-filters/).

> "Compact Block Filters increase the network privacy dramatically, since you're not asking an electrum server to give you your transactions. They are a little slower than electrum servers. For a savings wallet like [Bitcoin Safe](https://archive.is/o/x8jSG/https://bitcoin-safe.org/) this should be OK," [writes](https://njump.me/naddr1qqgrwwf4xcmnjcf4xvunvd3sxqungqgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctczyqrtex4hcpkt428mjzy75vn8xc6qgulu2jmh4c0qjdmxkuzz03y02qcyqqq823ccjtzhj) the project's developer _Andreas Griffin._

*   Learn more about the current and upcoming features of Bitcoin Safe wallet [here](https://njump.me/naddr1qqgrwwf4xcmnjcf4xvunvd3sxqungqgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctczyqrtex4hcpkt428mjzy75vn8xc6qgulu2jmh4c0qjdmxkuzz03y02qcyqqq823ccjtzhj).

What's new in v1.3
------------------

*   **Redesign** of Chart, Quick Receive, Icons, and Mempool Preview (by [@design-rrr](https://github.com/design-rrr)).
*   **Interactive chart.** Clicking on it now jumps to transaction, and selected transactions are now highlighted.

![Bitcoin Safe v1.3.0: Interactive Chart, CPFP, Testnet4 Support](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/images/2025/05/interactive-chart.gif)

*   Speed up transactions with Child Pays For Parent (CPFP).
*   BDK 1.2 (upgraded from 0.32).
*   Testnet4 support.
*   Preconfigured Testnet demo wallets.
*   Cluster unconfirmed transactions so that parents/children are next to each other.
*   Customizable columns for all tables (optional view: Txid, Address index, and more)
*   Bug fixes and other improvements.

![Bitcoin Safe v1.3.0: Interactive Chart, CPFP, Testnet4 Support](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/images/2025/05/bitcoin-safe-v13.jpg)

[**Announcement**](https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2dn0z03as87764zy9fg5sdzkh45paajj6pagp5rjwd6well7xnjqppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5qs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dspzqstewfpmn5wewcuupn7wctnxxtk3tz882krc8p4623t9qxa48lalhl3872) / [Archive](http://archive.today/QjYVe)
[**Blog Post**](https://njump.me/naddr1qqgrwwf4xcmnjcf4xvunvd3sxqungqgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctczyqrtex4hcpkt428mjzy75vn8xc6qgulu2jmh4c0qjdmxkuzz03y02qcyqqq823ccjtzhj) / [Archive](https://archive.is/x8jSG)
[**GitHub Repo**](https://github.com/andreasgriffin/bitcoin-safe)
[Website](https://bitcoin-safe.org/en/)


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content:
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*   "Today we're launching the beta version of our multiplatform Nostr browser! Think Google Chrome but for Nostr apps. The beta is our big first step toward this vision," [announced](https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2dseuw3d4sqkyt97pzq3vg5ncx6zv2fk6ummejf88ezesa2exkrc8y4zm9) Damus.
*   This version comes with the Dave Nostr AI assistant, support for zaps and the Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) wallet interface, full-text note search, GIFs and fullscreen images, multiple media uploads, user tagging, relay list and mute list support, along with a number of other improvements."

> "Included in the beta is the Dave, the Nostr AI assistant (its Grok for Nostr). Dave is a new Notedeck browser app that can search and summarize notes from the network. For a full breakdown of everything new, check out our beta launch [video](https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2dseuw3d4sqkyt97pzq3vg5ncx6zv2fk6ummejf88ezesa2exkrcpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgq3q8m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsncyhyu)."

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What's new
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*   Dave Nostr AI assistant app.
*   GIFs.
*   Fulltext note search.
*   Add full screen images, add zoom, and pan.
*   Zaps! NWC/ Wallet UI.
*   Introduce last note per pubkey feed (experimental).
*   Allow multiple media uploads per selection.
*   Major Android improvements (still WIP).
*   Added notedeck app sidebar.
*   User Tagging.
*   Note truncation.
*   Local network note broadcast, broadcast notes to other notedeck notes while you're offline.
*   Mute list support (reading).
*   Relay list support.
*   Ctrl-enter to send notes.
*   Added relay indexing (relay columns soon).
*   Click hashtags to open hashtag timeline.
*   Fixed timelines sometimes not updating (stale feeds).
*   Fixed UI bounciness when loading profile pictures
*   Fixed unselectable post replies.

![Damus Notedeck v0.4.0 Beta: Zaps, Dave AI Assistant, Android Improvements](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/images/2025/05/notedeckv041.jpg)

[**Announcement**](https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2dseuw3d4sqkyt97pzq3vg5ncx6zv2fk6ummejf88ezesa2exkrcpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgq3q8m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsncyhyu) / [Archive](https://archive.is/AQNsV#selection-171.0-171.165)
[**GitHub Repo**](https://github.com/damus-io/notedeck/releases)
[Website](https://damus.io/notedeck/)


Marty's Bent
------------

> "If you want to know what any society really believes in, just look at how they design their sewers."

![We Can All Do Better](https://www.tftc.io/content/images/2025/10/martybent_a_sculpture_of_leonardo_da_vinci_thinking_intently_in_1c665d85-fbc8-4168-93df-4c4efb17edaa.png)

Life in 2025 is a double edged sword. Most humans, at least those of us with an internet connection, have access to a wealth of knowledge that our ancestors could have never comprehended.

Thinking about cooking a specific dish you've never prepared? Type the name of the dish into Google or your preferred LLM and BAM!, you'll have a slew of tips, links and videos to choose from to learn how to cook the dish properly.

Headed on a trip to the West Coast from Philadelphia as the Autumn winds begin to shuffle cool air into your neck of the woods and you're not quite sure what the weather is going to be like when you land? "Hey Siri, what's the weather in Monterey looking like this weekend?"

Trying to settle an argument with a friend about who won the NBA Finals MVP in 2007? "Hey Siri,..."

Finding the solutions to our problems has become more convenient than ever. This relative convenience makes us feel _elite_. It gives us a false sense of proximity to omniscience. We don't really know any of these things off the top our heads, but they're readily accessible with simple queries. As a result we've become hubristic and complacent, which has conditioned us to accept a slow, but constant degradation of quality in the things that our ancestors worked hard to make interesting and inspiring.

Most noticeably, in the urban landscapes through which we wander when we step back from our desks and lift our heads away from the dull, yet addictive beam of blue light that emanates from our phones. Our dependence on this convenience has created a lapse in attention to detail that has made a lot of our physical and digital landscape incredibly uninteresting and completely lacking of character.

It manifests in the stale design of buildings, bridges, landing pages, and user interfaces. All have become somewhat uniform. With their only differences being in subtle tweaks in colorways, button positions, height and width, and different variations of minimalism, among other things.

What does this say about us?

If you watch the short film above from Sheehan Quirke, you'll come to find that he believes it says a lot about what we believe in as a society. If we're unwilling to spend the extra time, effort and de minimis amount of money to make our world a bit more interesting, do we really hold ourselves in a high regard? Is what we're doing with this allotted portion of time on this planet really worth anything? Will we hand anything other than some instructions on how to do certain things that are necessary to simply subsist in the hopes that our progeny continue subsisting? Or will we aim to inspire?

Not only that, but inspire in a way that is impossible to ignore for generations to come. Will we leave anything behind that people will be able to point at in one hundred years and find interesting, inspiring, and, most importantly, proud to be descendants of the society and culture that built it?

If I'm being honest, there aren't many things I can think of that have been built in my lifetime that would fit this mold. I've seen many from centuries past torn down. Penn Station as it was originally built in 1910, [Whitemarsh Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitemarsh_Hall?ref=tftc.io) outside of Philadelphia, the [Old Cincinnati Public Library](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/17xg2ej/the_old_cincinnati_public_library_before_it_was/?ref=tftc.io), and countless other buildings, monuments, bridges and simple decorative details on seemingly inconsequential everyday parts of our lives like doors, archways, gardens and driveways.

Will the sprawling subdivisions, cookie cutter multi-family units, soulless libraries, plastic playgrounds, bionic light posts and bland strip malls that litter this country leave our grandchildren with a sense of awe and inspiration?

No, of course they won't.

What does it say that the continued development of these uninspiring high velocity trash fiat economy manifestations have become a key focus of our economy?

Real estate is too expensive and interest rates are too high. "Build more cheap shit boxes!"

My CRE firm is on it's fourth fund and needs to continue spitting out a portfolio of 5-cap multi-use properties in gentrified neighborhoods located in second-tier cities with populations on the rise. "Funnel the money in from the pension funds looking to under perform the real rate of inflation and call the contractor who has a great deal on the plastic siding, fake wood and cheap doors from China."

It's all shit.

And as I was watching Sheehan's incredible short film that really cuts to the core of why building beautiful things is worthwhile, fulfilling, dignified and inspirational, I couldn't help but think, "Fiat ruins everything."

Fix the money, fix the world.

* * *

### The Federal Reserve and Treasury Have Been "Backed into a Corner" (System Breaking Down)

Jeremiah Albright laid out a compelling case that the Federal Reserve and Treasury have been systematically cornered by their own manipulated data and failed policies. He pointed to bond market correlations breaking down across historical norms, with Fed rate cuts and increases now producing the opposite bond market reactions than they should. The government's shift of bond duration from the long-end to the front-end signals acute stress in the system. Albright referenced Luke Gromen's warning of a potential bond revolt within six to nine months, emphasizing that correlations that held for decades are simply no longer functional.

> "The Fed has essentially been, in my opinion, neutralized. It's not functional anymore to the way that it historically should be." - [Jeremiah Albright](https://x.com/HodlMaryland?ref=tftc.io)

I highlighted Porter Stansberry's analysis showing how distorted the situation has become. Using the Taylor Rule with official CPI, the Fed funds rate should be 4.75%. However, using actual inflation around 15%, that rate should be 17.5%. This massive mispricing of risk and money has made it impossible for the Fed to implement effective policy. Traditional economics is breaking down before our eyes.

Check out the [full podcast here](https://youtu.be/4uZW0j-sW6w?ref=tftc.io) for more on BitBonds, stablecoins as yield curve control, and the coming AI economic transition.

* * *

### Headlines of the Day

[Nvidia Eyes $2B Stake in xAI](https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1975707397323923776?ref=tftc.io)

[SEC Plans Crypto Innovation Exemption](https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1975673531892371938?ref=tftc.io)

[Bitcoin ETFs Surpass $7.5B Volume](https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1975668202446463335?ref=tftc.io)

[BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Hits $5.64B](https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1975667458326642842?ref=tftc.io)

[Strike Lending Goes Live in Europe](https://x.com/TFTC21/status/1975633288867029066?ref=tftc.io)

[Treasury Fed Merge Ushers Bitcoin Era](https://x.com/TFTC21/status/1975668847429787891?ref=tftc.io)

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**Final thought...**

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![Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/images/2025/04/1gm40.jpg)

_**Good morning** (good night?)!_ The No Bullshit Bitcoin [news feed](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/rss-feeds/) is now available on [Moody's Dashboard](https://dashboard.clarkmoody.com/)! A huge shoutout to sir [_Clark Moody_](https://njump.me/nevent1qqspy9hy5pxfza4tuhk5zx7zls3t6dd6nppp2v3l9ead53tx0x2a0mgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs7amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd4hk6q3q5n94rarp3n7dz6edx9cugeshn0kcuxtugwu9nzprkpx7yekw7ygq27sgqj) for integrating our feed.

[![Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/images/2025/04/a35b533e45a4fa2edbd0818cd6d0402fe007df98ac6c29c9262ff44aefcb6e20.jpg)](https://dashboard.clarkmoody.com/)

Headlines
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*   **Spiral welcomes _Ben Carman_.** The developer [will work](https://xcancel.com/spiralbtc/status/1914334079387914435) on the LDK server and a new SDK designed to simplify the onboarding process for new self-custodial Bitcoin users.

[![Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/images/2025/04/image-35.png)](https://xcancel.com/spiralbtc/status/1914334079387914435)

*   **The Bitcoin Dev Kit Foundation announced new corporate members for 2025**, including [AnchorWatch](https://www.anchorwatch.com/), [CleanSpark](https://www.cleanspark.com/), and [Proton Foundation](https://proton.me/foundation). The annual dues from [these corporate members](https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/_2025q1-new-foundation-members/) fund the small team of open-source developers responsible for maintaining the core BDK libraries and related free and open-source software (FOSS) projects.
*   **Strategy increases Bitcoin holdings to 538,200 BTC.** In the [latest purchase](https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/04/21/strategy-buys-usd555m-of-bitcoin-increases-total-stash-to-538-200-btc), the company has spent more than $555M to buy 6,556 coins through proceeds of two at-the-market stock offering programs.
*   **Spar supermarket experiments with Bitcoin payments in Zug, Switzerland.** The store [has introduced](https://bitcoinnews.com/adoption/spar-supermarket-switzerland-bitcoin/) a new payment method powered by the Lightning Network. The implementation was facilitated by DFX Swiss, a service that supports seamless conversions between bitcoin and legacy currencies.

[![Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/images/2025/04/image-36.png)](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7318277304881709057/)

*   **The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) wants to contain 'crypto' risks.** A report titled _"_[_Cryptocurrencies and Decentralised Finance: Functions and Financial Stability Implications_](https://www.bis.org/publ/bppdf/bispap156.htm)_"_ calls for expanding research into "how new forms of central bank money, capital controls, and taxation policies can counter the risks of widespread crypto adoption while still fostering technological innovation."
*   **"Global Implications of Scam Centres, Underground Banking, and Illicit Online Marketplaces in Southeast Asia."** According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) [report](https://www.unodc.org/roseap/uploads/documents/Publications/2025/Inflection_Point_2025.pdf), criminal organizations from East and Southeast Asia are swiftly extending their global reach. These groups are moving beyond traditional scams and trafficking, creating sophisticated online networks that include unlicensed cryptocurrency exchanges, encrypted communication platforms, and stablecoins, fueling a massive fraud economy on an industrial scale.
*   **Slovenia is considering a 25% capital gains tax on Bitcoin profits for individuals.** The Ministry of Finance [has proposed](https://www.gov.si/novice/2025-04-17-v-javni-obravnavi-zakonska-predloga-s-podrocja-kriptosredstev-in-izvedenih-financnih-instrumentov/) legislation to impose this tax on gains from cryptocurrency transactions, though exchanging one cryptocurrency for another would remain exempt. At present, individual 'crypto' traders in Slovenia are not taxed.
*   **Circle, BitGo, Coinbase, and Paxos plan to apply for U.S. bank charters or licenses.** According to a [report](https://archive.is/dxbWM) in _The Wall Street Journal_, major crypto companies are planning to apply for U.S. bank charters or licenses. These firms are pursuing limited licenses that would permit them to issue stablecoins, as the U.S. Congress deliberates on legislation mandating licensing for stablecoin issuers.

> "Established banks, like Bank of America, are hoping to amend the current drafts of \[stablecoin\] legislation in such a way that nonbanks are more heavily restricted from issuing stablecoins," people familiar with the matter [told](https://www.theblock.co/post/351402/circle-bitgo-to-apply-for-bank-charters-coinbase-paxos-may-follow-suit-wsj) The Block.

*   **Charles Schwab to launch spot Bitcoin trading by 2026.** The financial investment firm, managing over $10 trillion in assets, [has revealed](https://riabiz.com/a/2025/4/19/rick-wurster-puts-harder-date-on-schwab-spot-bitcoin-launch-after-key-hire-and-400-surge-in-visits-to-its-crypto-site-but-isnt-pulling-down-crypto-red-flags-quite-yet) plans to introduce spot Bitcoin trading for its clients within the next year.

Use the tools
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*   [**Bitcoin Safe v1.2.3**](https://github.com/andreasgriffin/bitcoin-safe/releases/tag/1.2.3) expands QR SignMessage compatibility for all QR-UR-compatible hardware signers (SpecterDIY, KeyStone, Passport, Jade; already supported COLDCARD Q). It also adds the ability to import wallets via QR, ensuring compatibility with Keystone's latest firmware (2.0.6), alongside other improvements.
*   [**Minibits v0.2.2-beta**](https://github.com/minibits-cash/minibits_wallet/releases), an ecash wallet for Android devices, packages many changes to align the project with the planned iOS app release. New features and improvements include the ability to lock ecash to a receiver's pubkey, faster confirmations of ecash minting and payments thanks to WebSockets, UI-related fixes, and more.
*   [**Zeus v0.11.0-alpha1**](https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.11.0-alpha1) introduces Cashu wallets tied to embedded LND wallets. Navigate to Settings > Ecash to enable it. Other wallet types can still sweep funds from Cashu tokens. Zeus Pay now supports Cashu address types in Zaplocker, Cashu, and NWC modes.
*   [**LNDg v1.10.0**](https://github.com/cryptosharks131/lndg/releases/tag/v1.10.0), an advanced web interface designed for analyzing Lightning Network Daemon (LND) data and automating node management tasks, introduces performance improvements, adds a new metrics page for unprofitable and stuck channels, and displays warnings for batch openings. The Profit and Loss Chart has been updated to include on-chain costs. Advanced settings have been added for users who would like their channel database size to be read remotely (the default remains local). Additionally, the AutoFees tool now uses aggregated pubkey metrics for multiple channels with the same peer.
*   [**Nunchuk Desktop v1.9.45**](https://github.com/nunchuk-io/nunchuk-desktop/releases) release brings the latest bug fixes and improvements.
*   [**Blockstream Green iOS v4.1.8**](https://github.com/Blockstream/green_ios/releases) has renamed L-BTC to LBTC, and improves translations of notifications, login time, and background payments.
*   [**Blockstream Green Android v4.1.8**](https://github.com/Blockstream/green_android/releases) has added language preference in App Settings and enables an Android data backup option for disaster recovery. Additionally, it fixes issues with Jade entry point PIN timeout and Trezor passphrase input.
*   [**Torq v2.2.2**](https://github.com/lncapital/torq/releases/tag/v2.2.2), an advanced Lightning node management software designed to handle large nodes with over 1000 channels, fixes bugs that caused channel balance to not be updated in some cases and channel "peer total local balance" not getting updated.
*   [**Stack Wallet v2.1.12**](https://github.com/cypherstack/stack_wallet/releases/tag/build_226), a multicoin wallet by _Cypher Stack_, fixes an issue with Xelis introduced in the latest release for Windows.
*   [**ESP-Miner-NerdQAxePlus v1.0.29.1**](https://github.com/shufps/ESP-Miner-NerdQAxePlus/releases), a forked version from the NerdAxe miner that was modified for use on the [NerdQAxe+](https://github.com/shufps/qaxe), is now available.
*   [**Zark**](https://gitlab.com/1440000bytes/zark) enables sending sats to an npub using [Bark](https://codeberg.org/ark-bitcoin/bark).

![Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/images/2025/04/image-37.png)

*   [**Erk**](https://blog.second.tech/erk-update/) is a novel variation of the Ark protocol that completely removes the need for user interactivity in rounds, addressing one of Ark's key limitations: the requirement for users to come online before their VTXOs expire.
*   [**Aegis v0.1.1**](https://nostr.band/note1ljdczm267y648fv3jwv2jwn3mu4ae6jyzzpq4v0h8cthf020lyyss9ymde) is now available. It is a Nostr event signer app for iOS devices.
*   [**Nostash**](https://github.com/tyiu/nostash) is a NIP-07 Nostr signing extension for Safari. It is a fork of [Nostore](https://github.com/ursuscamp/nostore) and is maintained by [_Terry Yiu_](https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx028h0k8vfqge897kcapvgplymm8grx8wchhssza4gm4csrj3wggzyqnhnu7e7sk8mmsh7rnteh8cn28e6kfdr83mrw7j0mcullg607vdz7ytpj2)_._ Available on iOS [TestFlight](https://testflight.apple.com/join/8TFMZbMs).
*   [**Amber v3.2.8**](https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v3.2.8), a Nostr event signer for Android, delivers the latest fixes and improvements.
*   [**Nostur v1.20.0**](https://github.com/nostur-com/nostur-ios-public), a Nostr client for iOS, adds


tags: Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Weekly Close at $115K After Friday’s Crash: Support at $105K Holds, But Bears Dominate Bitcoin Price Weekly Outlook I feel like a broken record saying this, but it bears repeating: Wow, what a difference a week makes! Bitcoin pulled back a little as expected early last week, but then the bears came in with a sucker punch on Friday morning as Trump’s talk of raising tariffs on China sent markets crashing down. Things escalated quickly after liquidity dried up in the afternoon to send bitcoin down to a low of $105,617 on the index price. The price action was a bit chaotic as some leveraged exchanges went as low as $102,000 and even $100,000. After the carnage was done, bitcoin had a nice bounce back up to close the week out at $115,128. The bears are still firmly in control, however, as long as the price remains below $118,350. Key Support and Resistance Levels Now The price dove deep down through all the more recent support levels last Friday, but the $105,000 support level managed to prove itself, propping up the price for the time being. Bulls will now look for this low to hold, but if it is lost, we would look down once again to the $96,000 level for support. Closing below there should certainly put an end to this bull market for the foreseeable future. We can draw a Fibonacci Retracement from the $126,219 high down to the $105,617 low, opening up a wide range of price action. The bulls can start to retake resistance levels above the 0.618 Fibonacci Retracement at $118,350, with new highs expected if bulls can close a couple of days above the 0.786 Fibonacci Retracement at $121,800. Outlook For This Week A big bounce after such a steep sell-off was to be expected, and we got that into the weekly close. So it’s hard to know what to expect going into this week. Oscillators on the daily chart are still biased bearish, but not overly so, so bulls still have a chance to save face here. Over the next few days, bulls will want to avoid closing any days below the 0.236 Fibonacci Retracement at $110,500 as that opens up the $105,000 low once again. On the flip side, bears will look to keep the price below the 0.618 Fibonacci Retracement resistance at $118,350. Getting above here flips bias back to the bulls over the short term, but they have an uphill battle to do it. We have a neutral zone between $112,000 and $118,350, with $115,630 being the divider for bullish and bearish bias within this zone. So we may see bitcoin remain stuck in this zone over the next few days. Market mood: Bearish – After an epic dump on Friday, the bulls have been left stunned. Even the bears didn’t know they could hit that hard. While price made big gains to close the week out well above the low, the bulls still have more work to do to regain control of this price action. The next few weeks Interestingly, the low price last Friday hit the lower trend line of the broadening wedge pattern on the daily chart. It is still possible that price heads all the way back up to the upper trend line of this pattern once again. However, we must still be cognizant of the fact that this broadening wedge pattern could break down as well, forming a long-term top in the market. The bulls do not want to see any daily closes below that lower trend line, as it would signal a breakdown that would likely drop into the low $80,000 range as a minimum. Getting back to the upper trend line of the broadening wedge (around $127,000) would have bulls looking for the bullish breakout of this pattern once again. The bulls will be walking on eggshells over the coming weeks. They don’t want to see any price action close to $105,000 again, and will be hard-pressed to push the price back above $122,000. Terminology Guide: Bulls/Bullish: Buyers or investors expecting the price to go higher. Bears/Bearish: Sellers or investors expecting the price to go lower. Support or support level: A level at which the price should hold for the asset, at least initially. The more touches on support, the weaker it gets and the more likely it is to fail to hold the price. Resistance or resistance level: Opposite of support. The level that is likely to reject the price, at least initially. The more touches at resistance, the weaker it gets and the more likely it is to fail to hold back the price. Fibonacci Retracements and Extensions: Ratios based on what is known as the golden ratio, a universal ratio pertaining to growth and decay cycles in nature. The golden ratio is based on the constants Phi (1.618) and phi (0.618). Broadening Wedge: A chart pattern consisting of an upper trend line acting as resistance and a lower trend line acting as support. These trend lines must diverge away from each other in order to validate the pattern. This pattern is a result of expanding price volatility, typically resulting in higher highs and lower lows. Oscillators: Technical indicators that vary over time, but typically remain within a band between set levels. Thus, they oscillate between a low level (typically representing oversold conditions) and a high level (typically representing overbought conditions). E.G., Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Moving Average Convergence-Divergence (MACD). This post Bitcoin Weekly Close at $115K After Friday’s Crash: Support at $105K Holds, But Bears Dominate first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Ethan Greene - Feral Analysis.

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[Bitcoin Weekly Close at $115K After Friday’s Crash: Support at $105K Holds, But Bears Dominate](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoin-weekly-close-at-115k-after-fridays-crash-support-at-105k-holds-but-bears-dominate)

**Bitcoin Price Weekly Outlook**
--------------------------------

I feel like a broken record saying this, but it bears repeating: Wow, what a difference a week makes! Bitcoin pulled back a little as expected early last week, but then the bears came in with a sucker punch on Friday morning as Trump’s talk of raising tariffs on China sent markets crashing down.

Things escalated quickly after liquidity dried up in the afternoon to send bitcoin down to a low of $105,617 on the index price. The price action was a bit chaotic as some leveraged exchanges went as low as $102,000 and even $100,000. After the carnage was done, bitcoin had a nice bounce back up to close the week out at $115,128. The bears are still firmly in control, however, as long as the price remains below $118,350.![](blob:https://bitcoinmagazine.com/cdee600e-7b42-4a36-8195-7af1c8ac0566 "Bitcoin Weekly Close at $115K After Friday's Crash: Support at $105K Holds, But Bears Dominate 1")

**Key Support and Resistance Levels Now**

The price dove deep down through all the more recent support levels last Friday, but the $105,000 support level managed to prove itself, propping up the price for the time being. Bulls will now look for this low to hold, but if it is lost, we would look down once again to the $96,000 level for support. Closing below there should certainly put an end to this bull market for the foreseeable future.

We can draw a Fibonacci Retracement from the $126,219 high down to the $105,617 low, opening up a wide range of price action. The bulls can start to retake resistance levels above the 0.618 Fibonacci Retracement at $118,350, with new highs expected if bulls can close a couple of days above the 0.786 Fibonacci Retracement at $121,800. ![](blob:https://bitcoinmagazine.com/fb4fc4ba-59dc-4308-94b2-8f6c8857dab2 "Bitcoin Weekly Close at $115K After Friday's Crash: Support at $105K Holds, But Bears Dominate 2")

**Outlook For This Week**

A big bounce after such a steep sell-off was to be expected, and we got that into the weekly close. So it’s hard to know what to expect going into this week. Oscillators on the daily chart are still biased bearish, but not overly so, so bulls still have a chance to save face here. Over the next few days, bulls will want to avoid closing any days below the 0.236 Fibonacci Retracement at $110,500 as that opens up the $105,000 low once again.

On the flip side, bears will look to keep the price below the 0.618 Fibonacci Retracement resistance at $118,350. Getting above here flips bias back to the bulls over the short term, but they have an uphill battle to do it. We have a neutral zone between $112,000 and $118,350, with $115,630 being the divider for bullish and bearish bias within this zone. So we may see bitcoin remain stuck in this zone over the next few days.

**Market mood:** Bearish – After an epic dump on Friday, the bulls have been left stunned. Even the bears didn’t know they could hit that hard. While price made big gains to close the week out well above the low, the bulls still have more work to do to regain control of this price action.![](blob:https://bitcoinmagazine.com/b91eefa9-e8af-4c9a-a24c-e994834fdc6a "Bitcoin Weekly Close at $115K After Friday's Crash: Support at $105K Holds, But Bears Dominate 3")

**The next few weeks
**Interestingly, the low price last Friday hit the lower trend line of the broadening wedge pattern on the daily chart. It is still possible that price heads all the way back up to the upper trend line of this pattern once again. However, we must still be cognizant of the fact that this broadening wedge pattern could break down as well, forming a long-term top in the market.

The bulls do not want to see any daily closes below that lower trend line, as it would signal a breakdown that would likely drop into the low $80,000 range as a minimum. Getting back to the upper trend line of the broadening wedge (around $127,000) would have bulls looking for the bullish breakout of this pattern once again.

The bulls will be walking on eggshells over the coming weeks. They don’t want to see any price action close to $105,000 again, and will be hard-pressed to push the price back above $122,000.

**Terminology Guide:**

**Bulls/Bullish:** Buyers or investors expecting the price to go higher.

**Bears/Bearish:** Sellers or investors expecting the price to go lower.

**Support or support level:** A level at which the price should hold for the asset, at least initially. The more touches on support, the weaker it gets and the more likely it is to fail to hold the price.

**Resistance or resistance level:** Opposite of support.  The level that is likely to reject the price, at least initially. The more touches at resistance, the weaker it gets and the more likely it is to fail to hold back the price.

**Fibonacci Retracements and Extensions:** Ratios based on what is known as the golden ratio, a universal ratio pertaining to growth and decay cycles in nature. The golden ratio is based on the constants Phi (1.618) and phi (0.618).

**Broadening Wedge:** A chart pattern consisting of an upper trend line acting as resistance and a lower trend line acting as support. These trend lines must diverge away from each other in order to validate the pattern. This pattern is a result of expanding price volatility, typically resulting in higher highs and lower lows.

**Oscillators:** Technical indicators that vary over time, but typically remain within a band between set levels. Thus, they oscillate between a low level (typically representing oversold conditions) and a high level (typically representing overbought conditions). E.G., Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Moving Average Convergence-Divergence (MACD).

This post [Bitcoin Weekly Close at $115K After Friday’s Crash: Support at $105K Holds, But Bears Dominate](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoin-weekly-close-at-115k-after-fridays-crash-support-at-105k-holds-but-bears-dominate) first appeared on [Bitcoin Magazine](https://bitcoinmagazine.com) and is written by [Ethan Greene - Feral Analysis](#molongui-disabled-link).


tags: Bitcoin Magazine Citi to Launch Crypto Custody Service in 2026 as Wall Street Deepens Bitcoin Push Citi is reportedly preparing to roll out a crypto custody service by 2026, joining a growing list of Wall Street institutions expanding into bitcoin and other assets due to a friendlier U.S. regulatory climate. Biswarup Chatterjee, Citi’s global head of partnerships and innovation for its services division, told CNBC the bank has been developing its custody offering for over two years and plans to bring it to market “in the next few quarters.” The service would allow Citi to hold native bitcoin and other crypto on behalf of clients, a significant move for one of the world’s largest custodians of traditional financial assets. “We may have certain solutions that are completely designed and built in-house that are targeted towards certain assets and certain segment of our clients, whereas may we may use a third party, lightweight, nimble solution for other kind of assets,” Chatterjee told CNBC. Earlier this month, Citigroup analysts issued a bullish 12-month outlook for bitcoin, setting a target of $181,000 and revising their year-end forecast to $132,000. They cited strong inflows of around $7.5 billion and rising institutional demand. The analysts said they were more positive on bitcoin than ethereum, noting that bitcoin was capturing most of the new capital entering crypto markets and that a supportive U.S. regulatory backdrop could help sustain momentum into 2026. JUST IN: Wall Street giant Citi bank to launch #Bitcoin and crypto custody services in 2026 — CNBC pic.twitter.com/awPWDITXkx — Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) October 13, 2025 Banking and holding custody of digital assets Custody — the safekeeping of client assets — is considered one of the most crucial and challenging aspects of institutional crypto adoption. Just today, JPMorgan said they would not directly hold their clients’ crypto. While specialist firms like Anchorage and BitGo have dominated the space, large banks see an opening to offer regulated alternatives backed by decades of experience safeguarding securities. Citi’s crypto embrace comes as Washington has taken steps to provide clearer rules for digital assets through measures such as the GENIUS Act, giving major financial institutions confidence to develop crypto-related products. Citi’s exploration of custody runs parallel to its broader blockchain efforts, including Citi Token Services, which enables real-time cross-border payments using tokenized deposits. The bank is also studying stablecoins — digital tokens typically backed by fiat currency — as tools for global trade and payments in regions with less-developed banking systems. Other banks are advancing similar initiatives As mentioned earlier, JPMorgan recently unveiled plans for a deposit token, while Bank of America is reportedly developing a stablecoin product. This post Citi to Launch Crypto Custody Service in 2026 as Wall Street Deepens Bitcoin Push first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

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[Citi to Launch Crypto Custody Service in 2026 as Wall Street Deepens Bitcoin Push](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/citi-to-launch-crypto-custody-service-in-2026-as-wall-street-deepens-bitcoin-push)

Citi is reportedly preparing to roll out a crypto custody service by 2026, joining a growing list of Wall Street institutions expanding into bitcoin and other assets due to a friendlier U.S. regulatory climate.

Biswarup Chatterjee, Citi’s global head of partnerships and innovation for its services division, [told CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/citi-aims-to-launch-crypto-custody-in-2026-exploring-stablecoin.html) the bank has been developing its custody offering for over two years and plans to bring it to market “in the next few quarters.”

The service would allow Citi to hold native bitcoin and other crypto on behalf of clients, a significant move for one of the world’s largest custodians of traditional financial assets.

“We may have certain solutions that are completely designed and built in-house that are targeted towards certain assets and certain segment of our clients, whereas may we may use a third party, lightweight, nimble solution for other kind of assets,” Chatterjee told CNBC.

Earlier this month, Citigroup analysts [issued](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoin-price-flirts-with-120000-as-citi-gives-strong-bitcoin-price-target) a bullish 12-month outlook for bitcoin, setting a target of $181,000 and revising their year-end forecast to $132,000. They cited strong inflows of around $7.5 billion and rising institutional demand.

The analysts said they were more positive on bitcoin than ethereum, noting that bitcoin was capturing most of the new capital entering crypto markets and that a supportive U.S. regulatory backdrop could help sustain momentum into 2026.

> JUST IN: Wall Street giant Citi bank to launch [#Bitcoin](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) and crypto custody services in 2026 — CNBC ![🙌](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f64c.png) [pic.twitter.com/awPWDITXkx](https://t.co/awPWDITXkx)
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> — Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) [October 13, 2025](https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1977805211185127479?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Banking and holding custody of digital assets
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Custody — the safekeeping of client assets — is considered one of the most crucial and challenging aspects of institutional crypto adoption. Just today, JPMorgan [said](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/jpmorgan-confirms-clients-will-trade-bitcoin-and-crypto) they would not directly hold their clients’ crypto.

While specialist firms like Anchorage and BitGo have dominated the space, large banks see an opening to offer regulated alternatives backed by decades of experience safeguarding securities.

Citi’s crypto embrace comes as Washington [has taken steps to provide clearer rules](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/trump-signs-genius-act-into-law-will-make-america-the-crypto-capital-of-the-world) for digital assets through measures such as the GENIUS Act, giving major financial institutions confidence to develop crypto-related products.

Citi’s exploration of custody runs parallel to its broader blockchain efforts, including _Citi Token Services_, which enables real-time cross-border payments using tokenized deposits.

 The bank is also studying stablecoins — digital tokens typically backed by fiat currency — as tools for global trade and payments in regions with less-developed banking systems.

Other banks are advancing similar initiatives As mentioned earlier, JPMorgan [recently unveiled](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/jpmorgan-confirms-clients-will-trade-bitcoin-and-crypto) plans for a deposit token, while Bank of America is reportedly developing a stablecoin product.

This post [Citi to Launch Crypto Custody Service in 2026 as Wall Street Deepens Bitcoin Push](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/citi-to-launch-crypto-custody-service-in-2026-as-wall-street-deepens-bitcoin-push)  first appeared on [Bitcoin Magazine](https://bitcoinmagazine.com) and is written by [Micah Zimmerman](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/authors/micahzimmerman).