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The candle is the costume, and the level is the prophecy. Our ...

2026-10-28T13:00:19Z

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The candle is the costume, and the level is the prophecy. Our node Hal has no opinion on candles: every block pays 3.125 BTC, whatever the price did that day.

The record: three days of about 42% from low to high (April and ...

2026-10-28T13:00:17Z

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The record: three days of about 42% from low to high (April and November 2013, October 2019). The biggest dollar day was Nov 11, 2024, more than $8,400. No day has come close to $100,000.

On Dec 6, 2023, Samson Mow named it on X: "A God Candle has ...

2026-10-28T13:00:15Z

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On Dec 6, 2023, Samson Mow named it on X: "A God Candle has long been established to be $10k up on the daily... A $100k green candle? Not as yet named. I propose: Omega Candle." A $1M candle is still unnamed.

Board note: Spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $110.3 million on October ...

2026-10-27T16:45:16Z

Board note: Spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $110.3 million on October 26.

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The white paper turns eighteen on October 31. When the neighbors ...

2026-10-27T11:20:55Z

The white paper turns eighteen on October 31. When the neighbors knock, give the adults something that lasts longer than candy: a free pamphlet on a money no one can print more of. https://bitcoinhashpoint.com/white-paper-night/

Funds and Strategy Net Sell 321 Coins Over 30 Days The two ...

2026-10-26T11:20:54Z

Funds and Strategy Net Sell 321 Coins Over 30 Days

The two largest institutional buyers subtracted coins over the last 30 days.

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Banks fought for the GENIUS Act's ban on stablecoin interest. ...

2026-10-25T17:01:26Z

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Banks fought for the GENIUS Act's ban on stablecoin interest. Exchanges pay "rewards" anyway: 3.75% on USDC at Coinbase One, up to 4.5% at Kraken+. The OCC's final rule on Oct 21 will judge those programs case by case.

The Calmest Bank Run Every bank run in history has the same ...

2026-10-25T17:00:53Z

The Calmest Bank Run

Every bank run in history has the same picture.

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The three-day median hashrate fell 7.9% to 1,007 EH/s. ...

2026-10-25T16:45:16Z

The three-day median hashrate fell 7.9% to 1,007 EH/s.

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The Funds Turn Net Sellers as Bitcoin Dips Under $80,000 The spot ...

2026-10-25T11:20:54Z

The Funds Turn Net Sellers as Bitcoin Dips Under $80,000

The spot Bitcoin funds turned net sellers on the box's 30-day count this morning.

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Ten weeks after the white paper, the network started. It has run ...

2026-10-24T11:20:55Z

Ten weeks after the white paper, the network started. It has run ever since. Tell the story at your door this Halloween with a free pamphlet. https://bitcoinhashpoint.com/white-paper-night/

Supply pressure moved from 2.21 to 1.77: Strategy and the spot ...

2026-10-22T16:45:15Z

Supply pressure moved from 2.21 to 1.77: Strategy and the spot ETFs bought 1.77x the coins mined over 30 days.

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One message signed with an early key would settle it. In fifteen ...

2026-10-21T13:00:17Z

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One message signed with an early key would settle it. In fifteen years, none. The roughly 1.1 million coins attributed to him have never moved.

Four reveals since, one script: Dorian Nakamoto (2014), Craig ...

2026-10-21T13:00:16Z

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Four reveals since, one script: Dorian Nakamoto (2014), Craig Wright (2016, ruled not Satoshi in 2024), Peter Todd (2024), Adam Back (2026). Each a headline, each a denial.

The legend says the CIA scared him off. The record runs the other ...

2026-10-21T13:00:15Z

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The legend says the CIA scared him off. The record runs the other way: his last forum post was December 12, 2010, his goodbyes went out April 23 and 26, and Andresen's CIA talk came June 14, 2011. The silence came first.

April 26, 2011, Satoshi to Gavin Andresen: "I wish you ...

2026-10-21T13:00:14Z

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April 26, 2011, Satoshi to Gavin Andresen: "I wish you wouldn't keep talking about me as a mysterious shadowy figure." Make it about the open-source project, he wrote, and credit the developers. It is his last request on record.

The Last Thing He Asked In April 2011, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote to ...

2026-10-21T13:00:12Z

The Last Thing He Asked

In April 2011, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote to the developer who had taken over his project and asked for one thing.

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Print a stack of The Best Treat on the Block and keep it by the ...

2026-10-20T11:20:55Z

Print a stack of The Best Treat on the Block and keep it by the candy bowl. Free, no signup, both sides of one sheet of letter paper. White Paper Night is October 31. https://bitcoinhashpoint.com/white-paper-night/

Strategy Puts $8.74 Into STRC for Every Bitcoin Dollar Strategy ...

2026-10-20T11:20:53Z

Strategy Puts $8.74 Into STRC for Every Bitcoin Dollar

Strategy put $8.74 into its own preferred stock for every $1.00 it put into Bitcoin last week.

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Our node Hal puts bitcoin's last coin at block 6,929,999, ...

2026-10-19T19:00:16Z

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Our node Hal puts bitcoin's last coin at block 6,929,999, around 2136. An 80-year life that starts today ends in 2106. A 150-year life sees the final block at 110. Hang on, and stack sats.

Now the money. At the Fed's 2% target, a dollar keeps 21% of ...

2026-10-19T19:00:15Z

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Now the money. At the Fed's 2% target, a dollar keeps 21% of its buying power over 80 years and 5% over 150. Since 1913 it has lost 97%. A longer life turns that slow leak into the main event.

The skeptics have numbers too. Since 1990, life expectancy in the ...

2026-10-19T19:00:14Z

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The skeptics have numbers too. Since 1990, life expectancy in the longest-lived countries rose a little over two months a year. Escape velocity needs 12. The trial is three patients, 56 days, no control group. Both facts hold at once.

Amodei says AI could double the human lifespan in five to ten ...

2026-10-19T19:00:13Z

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Amodei says AI could double the human lifespan in five to ten years. Hassabis says the end of disease may sit a decade out. The first human data on cell rejuvenation landed Oct 8: three glaucoma patients, two with better vision at day 56.

The Longest Game This month, on CBS's Face the Nation, ...

2026-10-19T19:00:12Z

The Longest Game

This month, on CBS's Face the Nation, Palantir's chief technology officer, Shyam Sankar, told a strange story.

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Strategy filed an 8-K today: bought 267 BTC, 848,517 BTC held. ...

2026-10-19T16:45:15Z

Strategy filed an 8-K today: bought 267 BTC, 848,517 BTC held.

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September 21's $999 million leaves the ETF window Thursday ...

2026-10-19T11:20:54Z

September 21's $999 million leaves the ETF window Thursday

The box's supply pressure index fell to 1.79 from 2.20 overnight, and no fund redeemed a coin to cause it.

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The alternative.me Fear & Greed Index moved from Greed to ...

2026-10-18T16:45:17Z

The alternative.me Fear & Greed Index moved from Greed to Neutral today, 55 to 53. The Hashpoint structural gauge reads 36 (Fear).

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Six September days carry the whole ETF bid The box counts the ...

2026-10-18T11:20:52Z

Six September days carry the whole ETF bid

The box counts the spot funds as taking 1.96 times the Bitcoin the network mints each day, and six sessions in September carry that entire figure.

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The alternative.me Fear & Greed Index moved from Neutral to ...

2026-10-16T16:45:16Z

The alternative.me Fear & Greed Index moved from Neutral to Greed today, 53 to 63. The Hashpoint structural gauge reads 37 (Fear).

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STRC stalls at 99.53 as MSCI dates Strategy deletion STRC gave ...

2026-10-16T11:20:53Z

STRC stalls at 99.53 as MSCI dates Strategy deletion

STRC gave back twenty-one more cents on Thursday to close at $99.53, which puts the discount at forty-seven cents and ends the march toward par for a second…

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Don't Trust, Verify Ronald Reagan liked an old Russian ...

2026-10-15T19:00:11Z

Don't Trust, Verify

Ronald Reagan liked an old Russian proverb: trust, but verify.

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The alternative.me Fear & Greed Index moved from Greed to ...

2026-10-15T16:45:16Z

The alternative.me Fear & Greed Index moved from Greed to Neutral today, 62 to 53. The Hashpoint structural gauge reads 34 (Fear).

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Yields break lower and Bitcoin falls anyway The ten-year Treasury ...

2026-10-15T14:51:09Z

Yields break lower and Bitcoin falls anyway

The ten-year Treasury fell nearly thirteen basis points to 5.05% on Thursday, clearing the 5.15% line this publication named yesterday as the test of its own capital-pull…

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Bitcoin fell through 1.25x the power-law floor at $81,857, from ...

2026-10-14T16:45:16Z

Bitcoin fell through 1.25x the power-law floor at $81,857, from 1.27x at the last close.

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The First Price On October 5, 2009, a website called New Liberty ...

2026-10-14T13:00:10Z

The First Price

On October 5, 2009, a website called New Liberty Standard posted a number no one had published before: one U.S. dollar would buy 1,309.03 bitcoin.

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STRC closes ten cents from par as hike odds halve Both numbers ...

2026-10-14T11:20:53Z

STRC closes ten cents from par as hike odds halve

Both numbers this publication measures the spring against moved the bulls' way on Tuesday, and neither released anything.

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Bitcoin rose through 1.25x the power-law floor at $83,352, from ...

2026-10-13T16:45:15Z

Bitcoin rose through 1.25x the power-law floor at $83,352, from 1.25x at the last close.

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Candy for the kids, a pamphlet for the adults. The Best Treat on ...

2026-10-13T11:20:51Z

Candy for the kids, a pamphlet for the adults. The Best Treat on the Block is free, prints on letter paper, and carries a code to the free book. White Paper Night is October 31. https://bitcoinhashpoint.com/white-paper-night/

Strategy spent $192 million defending its own preferred Strategy ...

2026-10-13T11:20:50Z

Strategy spent $192 million defending its own preferred

Strategy sent $192.4 million to its own preferred stock last week and $21.5 million to Bitcoin, a ratio of $8.95 to one dollar.

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The Coiled Spring On October 12, Strategy's variable-rate ...

2026-10-13T04:01:10Z

The Coiled Spring

On October 12, Strategy's variable-rate preferred stock, STRC, closed at $99.88.

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The three-day median hashrate rose 6.7% to 1,025 EH/s. ...

2026-10-12T16:45:23Z

The three-day median hashrate rose 6.7% to 1,025 EH/s.

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Strategy put 9.5 percent of its raise into Bitcoin Strategy ...

2026-10-12T11:21:09Z

Strategy put 9.5 percent of its raise into Bitcoin

Strategy raised $5.41 billion selling new common shares in the third quarter and directed 9.5% of that money, roughly $514 million, into Bitcoin, according to…

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The three-day median hashrate fell 5.7% to 961 EH/s. ...

2026-10-11T16:47:38Z

The three-day median hashrate fell 5.7% to 961 EH/s.

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The Empire's Back Office In late 2018, the governor of ...

2026-10-11T16:07:52Z

The Empire's Back Office

In late 2018, the governor of Venezuela's central bank flew to London to ask for his country's gold.

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Strategy locks its 12 percent coupon through November Strategy ...

2026-10-11T11:20:43Z

Strategy locks its 12 percent coupon through November

Strategy held the annual rate on its variable-rate preferred at 12.00% and declared fifty-cent semi-monthly dividends for the period ending October 31 and…

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Board note: The alternative.me Fear & Greed Index rose 5 ...

2026-10-10T16:45:13Z

Board note: The alternative.me Fear & Greed Index rose 5 points to 64 (Greed). The Hashpoint structural gauge reads 35 (Fear).

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Strategy buys STRC within 34 cents of par Strategy's ...

2026-10-10T11:20:44Z

Strategy buys STRC within 34 cents of par

Strategy's variable-rate preferred closed Friday at $99.65, thirty-four and a half cents under its $100 par and the narrowest discount of the 102 sessions it has now spent…

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The Buyer Who Caught the Fall Until recently, the Strategy buys ...

2026-10-10T00:30:41Z

The Buyer Who Caught the Fall

Until recently, the Strategy buys layer on the dashboard's power-law chart told a simple story.

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STRC prints best close in 101 sessions below par Strategy's ...

2026-10-09T11:20:44Z

STRC prints best close in 101 sessions below par

Strategy's variable-rate preferred closed at $99.45 on Thursday, the strongest close of the 101 sessions it has now spent under its $100 par, and it reached that level…

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Funds pulled 485 million while 24,073 coins left exchanges Two ...

2026-10-09T03:31:42Z

Funds pulled 485 million while 24,073 coins left exchanges

Two bids moved in opposite directions on the same session.

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