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Stay liquid without selling your Bitcoin. Borrow against your BTC at 4%* in USD or 2.5%* in EUR to cover expenses, meet obligations, or access capital while keeping your Bitcoin safe. Explore Bitcoin-backed credit with tBTC @tBTC_project

Scammers found a way to make people drain their own wallets without sending them a phishing link. They uploaded YouTube tutorials showing people how to build an AI crypto trading bot with Claude. People followed the tutorial themselves. Copied the code. Deployed the smart contract themselves. Funded it from their own wallets. And approved every transaction themselves. Except the “trading bot” had no trading logic. It was built to send their ETH straight to the scammers. 224 wallets lost 274.6 ETH, worth about $517,000 when it was stolen. The median victim lost 1 ETH. Some victims even got an error after getting drained telling them to deposit another 50% to fix the bot. They literally got people to build, fund and approve their own wallet drainer. You've got to be very careful this days

People buying crypto again coz it’s pumping like…. where were you 3 or 4 months ago mate?

cute baby @pudgypenguins at @ETHSpain_ #ethspain ❤️

Threshold Network is joining the European Blockchain Convention in Barcelona this week, with RC Ramos, Head of Marketing, representing the network on the ground and discussing what comes next for institutional Bitcoin through Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts. If you’re attending @EBlockchainCon and want to exchange perspectives on where institutional Bitcoin is heading, this is a good week to connect.

New research from Alea looks at where Threshold's institutional accounts sit in Bitcoin-backed lending. tBTC holds a $368.6M custody base across 4,534.6 BTC, and holders can borrow against that Bitcoin without selling it, through Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts. Worth reading for anyone underwriting Bitcoin as collateral: alearesearch.substack.com/p/…

Ten million people have watched an MIT professor accidentally destroy the executive coaching industry. He filmed the lecture once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later. Executive coaches charge fifteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in one hour for free. His name was Patrick Winston. He ran the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997 and wrote the AI textbook every computer science major in the world read for thirty years. Every January for four decades, he gave a lecture called "How to Speak." His entire framework fits on a napkin. Do not read. Be in the image. Keep images simple. Eliminate clutter. Start with an empathetic connection. End with a punch line the audience can repeat over dinner. Never open with a joke. Never end with "thank you." That last rule alone has probably cost the executive coaching industry a hundred million dollars. "Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order." That is the actual opening line of the lecture. Winston believed it strongly enough to spend fifty years teaching computer scientists how to talk. Founders spend $80,000 on an MBA and then hire a communications coach to teach them the same material Winston filmed once for free. Engineers write brilliant code and lose promotions to teammates who watched this lecture on the train. The lecture is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The textbook is free on his page. Winston died in 2019. Almost none of the ten million viewers have actually implemented the four rules on the napkin. The napkin is free. The willingness to actually use it in your next meeting is the entire edge.

I do not talk about politics. I talk about ethics. The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Every tBTC mint and redemption is settled by an SPV proof. Since tBTC v2 launched in 2022, the protocol has used SPV so the host chain can confirm a Bitcoin deposit directly against Bitcoin's proof-of-work, without needing an operator to vouch for it. This write-up documents that infrastructure: threshold.network/blog/simpl…

Spain just went dark in the middle of the day. Total solar eclipse. Absolutely unreal. 🌑🇪🇸 Tarragona, Spain 🇪🇸

next thing u know, we’re at 50k!

30,000 tBTC minted. 🎉 That's 30,000 Bitcoin brought onchain, trust-minimized, with no single point of failure. Real momentum you can verify onchain.

Threshold Network maps three use cases for Bitcoin: Bitcoin's circulating supply sits at 20M, yet under 2% is tokenized and usable onchain. Of the Bitcoin already working in DeFi, 65%+ of it is still under centralized control, and of the 2.4M BTC in ETFs and corporate treasuries (1.2M in US spot ETFs, 1.26M in public company balance sheets, led by Strategy at 843,775 BTC), less than 1% is effectively used onchain. Threshold offers 3 models for building the Bitcoin Economy, providing composability and permissionless redemption to native Bitcoin.

$tBTC will be the #1 onchain BTC. Clocking it 💯

My favorite mantra line nowadays is “I have no strong opinion over this matter as I have not made sufficient research about it” 🤷‍♀️ Sometimes having no opinions might just be the best opinion. Happy Friday!

Introducing Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts by Threshold. Built based on what institutions actually need for Institutional Bitcoin deployment: segregated custody, preauthorized spending paths, signer combinations, timelocks, verifiable UTXOs, and clear recovery routes.

Bitcoin utility was the starting point, but what comes next? Coming soon on Threshold Network.