About this podcast
Good For Bitcoin is a weekly show recorded live every Friday where we recap events of the week and talk about everything good for Bitcoin. If it’s built on Bitcoin, then it’s Good for Bitcoin!
Episodes
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- Binance Got Hacked for $6.3 Billion: SAFU or SBF? · 33 minBinance lost an estimated $6.3 billion after an attacker got in through one engineer's laptop, the same playbook that hit Bitget a month earlier. Plus the NYSE's owner wants…
- The McRib Indicator Is Back: PHP Flaws, a Railway Breach, and JPMorgan Picks Bitcoin · 21 minTwo critical PHP flaws put an estimated 70% of websites at risk, Next.js and Railway got hit the same week, and Brandon flies solo to sort out what it means for your Bitcoin…
- Ledger Launched a Phone: Soldiers Charged in Crypto Kidnapping, Choke Point 2.0 Confirmed · 24 minDays after spy-chipped devices from one of its resellers drained Ledger users, Ledger unveiled a phone. Plus three Canadian soldiers are charged in the kidnapping of a crypto…
- Strike Launched Stacks: Treasury Kills the Unhosted Wallet Rule, Robinhood Buys Bitcoin · 31 minStrike named its new savings buckets "Stacks," and when Brandon pointed out Stacks already exists, a Strike team member called it an affinity scam. Plus Treasury withdraws the…
- Bitget Lost $387M to a Zero-Day: Muneeb Runs Stacks Labs, Anchorage Adds Bitcoin Staking · 39 minHackers used zero-day flaws in Bitget's third-party security tools to make $387M in withdrawals look like internal transfers, and a $464M protection fund made every user whole…
- The Clarity Act Just Died: SEC Greenlights Tokenized Stocks, Bitcoin Reserve Bill Advances · 26 minThe Clarity Act failed its cloture vote 49 to 50, and Polymarket now gives it 8% this year. Brandon argues two-thirds of the crypto market already has its clarity; Kate warns…
- Hackers Minted 4,000 BTC on Liquid: Blockstream Won't Pay, Trezor Leak Grows, Genesis Bond Sold Out · 34 minA dormant bug in Liquid's confidential transactions let an attacker mint roughly 4,000 BTC nobody could see, then bridge it out. They returned 3,400, kept 600, and are…
- Take Your Lightning Node Offline: AI-Found Bugs, Quantum-Proof BTC Mined, Coinbase Mortgages Live · 22 minCritical vulnerabilities in Core Lightning have node operators going offline while a two-week embargo holds, and they were surfaced by AI-generated bug reports that proved real…
- The Treasury Just Pumped Bitcoin: 7% Surge, Bullish IPOs With 24,300 BTC, MetaPlanet Comes to the US · 15 minThe Treasury yield hit 5.34%, its highest since 2007, and the Treasury answered by doubling its long-end bond buybacks. Bitcoin surged 7% in a day, its biggest move since March…
- Nobody Is Safe: Trezor Data Breach, BIP 110 Dies in Two Blocks, Coldcard Fallout Grows · 28 minOne week after Coldcard, Trezor got hit too: a shipping partner leaked nearly 12,000 customers' home addresses, phones, and emails. Plus BIP 110's two-block death, the Coldcard…
- Coldcard Hack Explained: What Happened and How to Secure Your Bitcoin Now · 49 minThe Coldcard exploit drained over $100M from wallets that never touched the internet. How a 2021 firmware bug collapsed seed entropy, what to do with your Bitcoin now, and the AI…
- Everyone Is Shutting Down · 24 minJack Mallers quit Twenty One, BitMEX is closing, Satsuma is liquidating, and Smarter Web sold Bitcoin. The old guard is packing up. Plus: BlackRock and Strategy funded Bitcoin's…
- We Read Your Hate Mail · 30 minThe BIP-110 haters found us, so we read the hate mail on air. Plus: privacy coins are crypto's only green category this year, Lyn Alden's $40M Orange Juice, ZachXBT calls every…
- We Actually Read BIP 110 · 30 minThe BIP 110 fight has been all mudslinging, so we did something radical: we actually read the BIP. Why the filters won't work and why it probably ends in a fork. Plus: Strategy's…
- Everyone Just Launched a Stablecoin · 19 minOut of left field: 140+ companies — Visa, Mastercard, Google, Samsung, PayPal, BlackRock, Coinbase, Stripe and more — announced Open USD, one shared stablecoin where the partners…
- They Say Bitcoin Is Dead Again · 20 minBitcoin slipped under $60K and the timeline filled with obituaries — people who bought the $120K top now calling it dead. Brandon and Kate place it right where the four-year…
- Is Stretch Stretched to Its Limit? · 22 minStrategy's 'Stretch' — the STRC preferred stock built to trade near $100 — cratered to an all-time low of $82.53 this week, and the timeline declared it the next Ponzi. Brandon…
- Saylor Says He Never Sold a Sat · 24 minA week after Strategy quietly sold 32 BTC, Saylor tweeted he's 'never sold a single sat.' Brandon and Kate call out the goalpost-moving, react to a Saylor clip, then run the…
- Claude Found a Zcash Counterfeiting Bug · 13 minKate's out sick, so Brandon flies solo. The headline: a researcher used Claude Opus 4.8 to find a counterfeiting bug in Zcash's shielded pool that could've minted unlimited coins…
- Someone Burned 107 Bitcoin · 32 minSomeone moved 107 Bitcoin — nearly $8 million — out of ten-year-old, Mt. Gox-era addresses and torched it in a single burst of transactions on Monday. No note, no explanation…
