A guy who lost access to ~5 BTC for 11 years used Claude Code to recover it — and the crypto internet lost its mind. But did Claude actually break Bitcoin? Brandon and Kate unpack what really happened.

In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:

• Saylor and Strategy float the idea of selling some Bitcoin — and Bitcoiners are mad
• Bitcoin earnings season: MARA dumps 3,386 BTC, Block adds 34, Bitfarms rebrands to Keel Infrastructure, Fold sells 1 BTC (why?)
• Trump's Q1 filings reveal Coinbase, MARA, and Strategy on the buy list
• Brandon launches VibeWatch (vibewatch.io) — the social listening tool he wished existed for crypto
• The Bitcoin Staking white paper drops: keep your BTC on L1, earn native Bitcoin yield, no slashing, exit anytime
• Did Claude actually crack a Bitcoin wallet? Inside the 11-year recovery story tearing through X
• Bitcoin mining is bleeding — ~20% of miners are unprofitable and MARA posts a $1B Q1 loss
• Stratum V2: seven pools controlling 75% of hashrate commit to handing block-building back to individual miners
• The CLARITY Act clears the Senate Banking Committee — what got compromised, what got fixed
• Jane Street dumps 78% of MSTR + $1B of BTC ETFs, Charles Schwab rolls out crypto trading (no withdrawals), and Drake asks for an SBF pardon on his new track

Hosts:

• Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing
• Kate Parkman — @katemparkman

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Paul Sztorc is hard forking Bitcoin — and the plan involves reassigning Satoshi's coins. Brandon and Kate break down the most chaotic week of news in months.

In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:

• Public companies stack: Strategy adds 3,273 BTC (now 818,334 total), Strive +798, Block +114, Capital B +6, Smarter Web +28
• Nakamoto launches a BTC derivatives strategy with Kraken and Bitwise — covered calls, protective puts, and yield from Bitcoin's volatility
• Paul Sztorc announces a Bitcoin hard fork called eCash — drivechains by force, plus a controversial plan to reassign Satoshi's coins to investors of the new project
• Bitcoin Vegas takeaways: SEC chair Paul Atkins debuts Project Crypto, AG Todd Blanche and FBI's Kash Patel say "code is free speech," and Senator Lummis says the CLARITY Act gets marked up in May
• White House crypto advisor Patrick Witt teases a "major announcement" on the Bitcoin Reserve in the coming weeks
• Tether proposes merging 21, Strike, and Electron Mining into one Bitcoin powerhouse — Brandon and Kate called it a year ago
• Litecoin hit with a 51% attack — a 13-block reorg over three hours and double-spends across cross-chain swap protocols
• April was the worst month ever for DeFi exploits: $635M lost across 28 incidents in 30 days
• Wall Street Journal: World Liberty Financial partnered with a venture run by men sanctioned in the Prince Group scam crackdown — for a blockchain-themed resort in East Timor
• Bitkey unveils a new model with a screen, Alberta's pension fund discloses a $219M stake in Strategy, and ord.net is now the place for Ordinals trading

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• Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing
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A new documentary dropped claiming Satoshi Nakamoto was actually two people — Hal Finney and Len Sassaman — and the Bitcoin world is buzzing. Plus: Strategy just overtook BlackRock, and the US Air Force is running a Bitcoin node.

In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:

• Strategy bought 34,164 BTC — their largest purchase since November 2024 and 3rd largest ever — now holds 815,000 BTC, surpassing all of BlackRock's iBIT ETF clients combined
• "Finding Satoshi" documentary claims Satoshi was both Hal Finney and Len Sassaman — Brandon and Kate discuss the evidence and the Bitcoin community's reaction
• $292M Kelp DAO hack — the biggest crypto exploit of 2026 — sparks debate about Arbitrum's decentralization after their governing body froze Wrapped ETH
• Hermetica launches HBTC: Bitcoin-in, Bitcoin-out yield product earning from sBTC, Basis Trades, and dual-stacking on Stacks — hits 50 BTC cap in days
• Allbridge Core now supports Stacks, enabling USDC and USDT bridging to and from Stacks from 16 chains
• Bitcoin Core v31 adds private broadcast via Tor/I2P — transactions no longer linkable to a node's IP address or location
• Coinbase's Quantum Advisory Council publishes a quantum computing report, with 17 active researchers working on post-quantum Bitcoin solutions including BIP 360
• US Air Force Admiral tells lawmakers the military is running a Bitcoin node and conducting operational tests for network resilience
• Tether freezes $344M in USDT linked to Iran — Iran had previously been seeking USDC and BTC
• Russia officially recognizes crypto as property under law but bans everyday use as currency

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• Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing
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Allbridge cofounder Andriy Velykyy joins Brandon and Kate to unpack what real Circle-issued USDC on Bitcoin actually means — and why he's calling this the moment Bitcoin DeFi stops being an experiment.

In this bonus episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate sit down with Allbridge cofounder Andriy Velykyy to discuss:

• The origin of Allbridge — from connecting EVM and non-EVM chains five years ago to 17+ networks, 1M+ unique wallets, and nearly 2M on-chain transfers today
• Surviving the KelpDAO contagion and why Arbitrum's emergency freeze of 30,000 ETH — moving funds without a private key signature — sets a dangerous precedent for self-custody
• Echoes of the DAO hack and the Ethereum / Ethereum Classic split
• Why stablecoin rails are the missing ingredient for any DeFi ecosystem — and the "Bitcoin is savings, stablecoins are checking" framing
• USDCx on Stacks: the first Circle-standard USDC on any Bitcoin layer, and what that signals about capital flow into Bitcoin DeFi
• Liquidity fragmentation — why one canonical USDC beats a dozen bridge-minted versions
• Allbridge Classic sunsetting April 30 — Andriy's direct plea to migrate aeUSDC loans off lending protocols before the lights go out
• Where Bitcoin DeFi is headed next: perp DEXes, stablecoin card payments, treasury management, and cross-chain yield arbitrage
• How Allbridge Core's stablecoin-to-stablecoin routing (USDT TRC20 → USDCx on Stacks) opens Bitcoin DeFi to users in emerging markets

Guest:

• Andriy Velykyy — Cofounder, Allbridge (core.allbridge.io)

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• Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing
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A quantum computer could steal $74 billion in Satoshi's Bitcoin — and the only proposed fix might be worse than the problem.

In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:

• BlackRock's IBIT sees over $700M in inflows this week — and Strategy adds 13,927 BTC, now holding over 780,000 BTC and back in profit above $77K
• Goldman Sachs enters the Bitcoin ETF game with a premium income ETF — using an options-based strategy to generate yield on BTC exposure
• World Liberty Financial (Trump's DeFi project) minted tokens, used them as collateral to borrow $75M, and drained 55% of Dolomite's liquidity pool — drawing comparisons to FTX. Justin Sun publicly called it a "personal ATM for insiders"
• New Presidio Bitcoin report: 6.5 million BTC would be immediately vulnerable if a cryptographically relevant quantum computer existed today — with 4.5M of that exposure reducible right now just by rotating to fresh addresses
• BIP 361 (co-authored by Jameson Lopp) proposes freezing quantum-vulnerable Bitcoin, including Satoshi's coins — a three-phase approach that would eventually render all legacy UTXOs unspendable
• Adam Back pushes back, arguing an optional quantum-safe upgrade is the right path — and the philosophical debate over "your keys, your coins" vs. protecting the network heats up
• Pakistan's Central Bank reverses its crypto ban, now allowing banks to open accounts for licensed Bitcoin and crypto service providers
• Bitcoin passes block 945,000 — we're now halfway to the next halving, and the 4-year cycle is tracking almost exactly to historical patterns
• Charles Schwab launches direct BTC and ETH trading at just 75bps — competing head-on with Robinhood and Coinbase
• Tether releases a self-custody wallet with Bitcoin, Lightning, USDT, and USAT support — plus human-readable tether.me addresses
• Tim Draper predicts $250K Bitcoin within 18 months. OG Satoshi-era whale exits after 15 years, selling 3,500 BTC (~$260M) all at once

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• Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing
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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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• Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing
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Google just moved the quantum computing timeline from 2035 to 2029 — and Bitcoin's clock is ticking. Plus, the FBI created crypto tokens as part of a DOJ sting, and the Department of Labor just named Bitcoin in a landmark 401(k) rule.

In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:

• Google's quantum research paper co-authored with Ethereum Foundation and Stanford — Q Day moved to 2029
• Why Bitcoin's UTXO model gives it a structural advantage over Ethereum against quantum attacks
• US Department of Labor proposes landmark rule allowing Bitcoin in 401(k) plans
• Coinbase receives conditional OCC approval to become a national trust bank
• X402 Foundation launches under the Linux Foundation with AWS, Google, Microsoft, Stripe, Visa, and more
• DOJ charges 10 foreign nationals in crypto market manipulation sting — FBI created its own tokens
• Square auto-enables Bitcoin payments for US merchants
• MetaPlanet climbs to 3rd largest public BTC holder with 40,177 BTC
• Nakamoto sells 284 BTC at a loss to cover operating expenses
• Magic Eden wallet goes export-only, removed from app stores
• Block revives the Bitcoin faucet at btc.day

Chapters:

• (00:00:00) Intro
• (00:01:30) Bitcoin at $67K — Fear and Greed Hits 9
• (00:03:00) Public Companies: Who's Buying and Who's Selling BTC
• (00:07:30) Google's Quantum Warning: Q Day Moves to 2029
• (00:13:53) Bitcoin in Your 401(k) Is Coming
• (00:17:30) Coinbase Becomes a Trust Bank
• (00:19:16) X402: The Payment Standard Backed by Big Tech
• (00:22:31) The FBI Made Crypto Tokens — DOJ Sting Operation
• (00:25:41) Square Auto-Enables Bitcoin Payments
• (00:27:49) Magic Eden Shuts Down, Iran Accepts Stablecoins, Bitcoin Faucet Returns

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• Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing
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The cost to mine one Bitcoin just hit $80K — but BTC is trading at $66K. Miners are bleeding out, infrastructure is booming, and crypto-backed mortgages just became a reality. Welcome to the most confusing time in Bitcoin.

In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:

• Strategy adds another 1,031 BTC to its war chest — now holding over 760K BTC
• MARA sells 15,133 BTC, dropping to third place behind Jack Mallers' XXI
• Coinbase and Better launch crypto-backed conforming mortgages with Fannie Mae backing
• The Clarity Act's latest draft bans passive stablecoin yield — Coinbase pushes back again
• Bitcoin mining hits its worst profitability crisis in 2+ years as difficulty drops 7.76%
• Circle stock drops 20% on Clarity Act news — but Bernstein says investors are misreading the bill
• MoonPay announces OWS, an open wallet standard for AI agents backed by 21 organizations
• Tether signs a Big Four accounting firm for its first full audit
• Fold rolls out its Bitcoin credit card on the Visa network — up to 4% back in BTC
• Lightning Network surpasses $1 billion in monthly volume with average transaction sizes of $223

Chapters:

• (00:00:00) Intro — BTC at $66K, Extreme Fear at 13
• (00:02:57) PubCo Bitcoin Buys and Sells
• (00:05:29) Crypto-Backed Mortgages Are Here
• (00:10:31) Clarity Act and Stablecoin Yield Ban
• (00:14:47) Mining's Worst Profitability Crisis in 2+ Years
• (00:19:49) Circle's 20% Stock Drop
• (00:21:51) MoonPay's Open Wallet Standard for AI Agents
• (00:27:02) Tether Signs Big Four Firm for First Full Audit
• (00:29:21) Fold Bitcoin Credit Card Launch
• (00:35:09) Quick Headlines — ord.net, Lightning $1B, De Minimis Tax, David Sacks
• (00:40:34) Outro

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• Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing
• Kate Parkman — @katemparkman

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