Episode notes
LIVE – $6.3 billion vanished from Binance in 55 minutes — the largest exchange loss ever recorded, 18,270 Bitcoin split across 19 wallets no government or company can freeze. One hack just lost more than a decade of self-custody failures combined.
Ben breaks down exactly why the Binance hack reinforces the Bitcoin self-custody thesis, and what it means if your coins are still sitting on someone else's platform. You'll see why the Fear & Greed Index dropping to 29 at $77K Bitcoin has historically marked buying opportunities, and you'll get the full breakdown of the Trezor warning sent to CryptoBilis customers about a hardware implant found in Safe 5 devices. You'll also learn how the Polymarket frontend was hijacked through a DebugBear supply-chain attack to drain $2.6 million.
Beyond the hacks: the Monero swap site Wagyu leaked three months of order data linking deposits to addresses, gold and silver cracked below key levels as the tech selloff spread, and six governments told citizens to stockpile emergency supplies. Plus AI news, a Google phishing exploit abusing Google's own infrastructure, Strait of Hormuz disruptions, and the one fact underneath all of it — Bitcoin itself still hasn't been hacked.
Bitcoin-only commentary. No hype — just what matters for your sovereignty this week.
Subscribe for weekly Bitcoin-only education and live commentary: https://www.youtube.com/@BTCSessions
Follow on X for real-time takes: https://x.com/BTCSessions
Join the newsletter for the best Bitcoin reads of the week: https://btcsessions.ca
ALSO WATCH THE CO-HOSTS:
• Canadian Bitcoiners (Joey): https://www.youtube.com/@canadianbitcoiners
• THE Bitcoin Podcast (Walker): https://www.youtube.com/@walkeramerica
• Brandon Gentile: https://www.youtube.com/@brandon_gentile
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Hit the bell so you never miss a live show.
Like this video if you think more people need to hear this.
Drop your questions in the chat — we read them live.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
FOLLOW BTC Sessions on X: x.com/BTCsessions
———————————
SHOW SPONSORS:
BITCOIN WELL BUY BITCOIN
https://qrco.de/bfiDC6
ABUNDANT MINES:
https://qrco.de/bgYKPB
HODLHODL NO KYC P2P EXCHANGE
https://hodlhodl.com/join/BTCSESSION
DEBIFI LOANS
https://qrco.de/bfiDCp
STAMP SEED TITANIUM BACKUP
https://www.stampseed.com/products/titanium-seed-stamping-kit
Use promo code BITCAST for 15% off site wide
CASA COLLABORATIVE MULTISIG
https://casa.io/sessions
Use promo code SESSIONS for 10% off your first year
BOOK Private Sessions with Nathan, Ben and the BTC Mentor Team: Master self-custody, hardware, multisig, Lightning, privacy, and more.
Visit btcmentor.io
Ben breaks down exactly why the Binance hack reinforces the Bitcoin self-custody thesis, and what it means if your coins are still sitting on someone else's platform. You'll see why the Fear & Greed Index dropping to 29 at $77K Bitcoin has historically marked buying opportunities, and you'll get the full breakdown of the Trezor warning sent to CryptoBilis customers about a hardware implant found in Safe 5 devices. You'll also learn how the Polymarket frontend was hijacked through a DebugBear supply-chain attack to drain $2.6 million.
Beyond the hacks: the Monero swap site Wagyu leaked three months of order data linking deposits to addresses, gold and silver cracked below key levels as the tech selloff spread, and six governments told citizens to stockpile emergency supplies. Plus AI news, a Google phishing exploit abusing Google's own infrastructure, Strait of Hormuz disruptions, and the one fact underneath all of it — Bitcoin itself still hasn't been hacked.
Bitcoin-only commentary. No hype — just what matters for your sovereignty this week.
Subscribe for weekly Bitcoin-only education and live commentary: https://www.youtube.com/@BTCSessions
Follow on X for real-time takes: https://x.com/BTCSessions
Join the newsletter for the best Bitcoin reads of the week: https://btcsessions.ca
ALSO WATCH THE CO-HOSTS:
• Canadian Bitcoiners (Joey): https://www.youtube.com/@canadianbitcoiners
• THE Bitcoin Podcast (Walker): https://www.youtube.com/@walkeramerica
• Brandon Gentile: https://www.youtube.com/@brandon_gentile
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Hit the bell so you never miss a live show.
Like this video if you think more people need to hear this.
Drop your questions in the chat — we read them live.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
FOLLOW BTC Sessions on X: x.com/BTCsessions
———————————
SHOW SPONSORS:
BITCOIN WELL BUY BITCOIN
https://qrco.de/bfiDC6
ABUNDANT MINES:
https://qrco.de/bgYKPB
HODLHODL NO KYC P2P EXCHANGE
https://hodlhodl.com/join/BTCSESSION
DEBIFI LOANS
https://qrco.de/bfiDCp
STAMP SEED TITANIUM BACKUP
https://www.stampseed.com/products/titanium-seed-stamping-kit
Use promo code BITCAST for 15% off site wide
CASA COLLABORATIVE MULTISIG
https://casa.io/sessions
Use promo code SESSIONS for 10% off your first year
BOOK Private Sessions with Nathan, Ben and the BTC Mentor Team: Master self-custody, hardware, multisig, Lightning, privacy, and more.
Visit btcmentor.io
