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
Kate Parkman — @katemparkman

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