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Developers just figured out a way to hide who sent bitcoin, who received it, and how much moved, without changing Bitcoin itself. This new proposed idea is not a fork around the protocol or new cryptocurrency. This is how Bitcoin was designed, a base layer people can innovate on without asking permission. On Thursday, researcher Misha Komarov and colleagues published Shielded Bitcoin, a Zcash-style shielded pool for Bitcoin’s base layer. Encrypted notes and zero-knowledge proofs ride along in ordinary Bitcoin transactions. Separate software checks that no coins are created from nothing and none are spent twice. There is no company running the pool, no sidechain, and no soft fork. Funds go in and out through cryptographic vaults Komarov has been building, called PIPEs, so no federation has to hold the bitcoin. Miners do not enforce the privacy rules. Invalid shielded data can still land in a block, indexers simply ignore it. The trade is: Bitcoin stays conservative, and the experiment lives on top of it. If it works, private transfers arrive the way most of Bitcoin’s best ideas have, not by rewriting the constitution, but by building on the settlement layer everyone already trusts.

Them: "Bitcoin is too complicated." Meanwhile, the US dollar:

Strategy is proposing daily dividends on $STRF, $STRC, $STRK, and $STRD, accruing every calendar day, including weekends and holidays, and paid the next business day, with economics unchanged. The proposed changes aim to support price stability, liquidity, and demand.

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BDO, the world’s 5th largest accounting network, notes industries are built on assets: airlines deploy aircraft, banks allocate capital, and software firms monetize IP. Bitcoin can similarly be a foundational asset around which businesses are built. bdo.com/insights/assurance/b…

Digital Credit ETF just dropped. Starting with two variable rate securities, so far.

Our latest research paper explores the growing connection between AI and digital assets and explains why broad AI adoption may drive new demand, utility and applications across the digital asset economy. blackrock.com/us/individual/…

$BTC has flashed the momentum signal that started the last two bull markets. MVRV has crossed back above its 365-day average. This is the same cross that we saw in 2019 and 2023 at the beginning of each bull market.

Only $913,000 more to go

Bitcoin takes you higher.

BREAKING: Bitcoin rises above $84,000 for the first time since January 31st as $260 million worth of levered shorts are liquidated in 60 minutes.

Strategy is now the largest issuer in iShares $PFF. 4.7% weight, close to 9% of total PFF yield. Achieved in a bear market. Incredibly bullish.

$BTC treasury is a game of coopetition. Every new player grows the category and strengthens the ecosystem for everyone.

My thoughts on why the rejection of CLARITY marks a positive inflection point for Digital Assets, and why supportive rules and free markets should now accelerate innovation and growth.

The Digital Assets industry is better off moving forward with supportive rules from the SEC, CFTC, Treasury, and banking regulators than accepting the restrictions in the final CLARITY compromise.

2024年4月23日、メタプラネットは1株あたり約48サトシ。 当時約2,083,334株で1BTC相当。同じ株数を持ち続けた場合、今は1株約2,866サトシ。 つまり約59.7BTC相当。約60倍。株数は併合と分割でほぼ相殺。増えたのは1株あたりのBTC。 これらは、Metaplanet Analyticsのウェブサイトで直接確認できるデータです。 #メタプラネット #ビットコイン 3350 #Metaplanet

マイニングを「大量の電力需要」と見るだけでは、電力市場での役割は捉えきれません。 重要なのは、価格や系統の状態に応じて稼働を止められること。ただし柔軟性は、採算、電力契約、市場設計で変わります。 需要応答、電力との関係、AI・HPCへの転用まで整理しました👇 bitcoin.jp/jp/blog/bitcoin-m…

【速報】 米下院委員会、ビットコイン準備金法案を可決丨保有分BTCの20年凍結を規定 ✅新規購入は義務化せず coinpost.jp/?p=737916