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LIVE – Oil just broke $117 a barrel on US-Iran tensions, gold dropped 15% off its August peak, and GoDaddy revoked over 400,000 TLS certificates overnight as PHP2Shell and Node2Shell tore through the web infrastructure half of US hospitals depend on. When the certificates underneath the internet get revoked in a single action and oil wars push prices higher by the week, the real question is what's actually still trustworthy — and that's the frame for tonight's entire Bitcoin news roundup.
You'll see why Chamath's claim that SHA-256 is crackable fell apart the moment it met the Bitcoin community, why Coinkite is now facing a Canadian class action over Coldcard, and how 66 straight months of above-target US inflation make the sound-money case without anyone having to argue it. You'll also get the Cook Political House-seat shifts heading into the 2026 midterms, the Pentagon's covert tech-sabotage agency, and the arrests over edited political photos in the UK. Then the turn nobody expected: Italy's central bank is urging its own banks to buy Bitcoin, and Belgium's KBC just added to its Strategy stake — Europe's old guard is folding.
This is the live Bitcast roundup — macro, security, and sound money in one sitting, no hype, just what changed and why it matters to anyone holding keys.
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• THE Bitcoin Podcast (Walker): https://www.youtube.com/@walkeramerica
• Brandon Gentile: https://www.youtube.com/@brandon_gentile
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You'll see why Chamath's claim that SHA-256 is crackable fell apart the moment it met the Bitcoin community, why Coinkite is now facing a Canadian class action over Coldcard, and how 66 straight months of above-target US inflation make the sound-money case without anyone having to argue it. You'll also get the Cook Political House-seat shifts heading into the 2026 midterms, the Pentagon's covert tech-sabotage agency, and the arrests over edited political photos in the UK. Then the turn nobody expected: Italy's central bank is urging its own banks to buy Bitcoin, and Belgium's KBC just added to its Strategy stake — Europe's old guard is folding.
This is the live Bitcast roundup — macro, security, and sound money in one sitting, no hype, just what changed and why it matters to anyone holding keys.
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
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