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Bitcoin Has 3 Years to Survive | Nic Carter on Bitcoin’s Quantum Vulnerability

New research warns quantum computers could crack Bitcoin signatures by 2030–2035, forcing urgent technical upgrades and fraught governance choices to preserve the protocol.

How Bitcoin Is Both a Risk Asset and a Hedge Against Debasement

Charles Schwab’s Jim Ferrioli unpacks crypto valuation, Bitcoin’s macro role, miner-cost bottoms, and why tokenization and price-to-fee metrics matter for picking real value.

How State-Sponsored Hackers Like DPRK Drain DeFi Protocols: Uneasy Money

A deep dive into the Drift Protocol hack: incident forensics, attacker tactics, defense best practices, and how response teams like CL911 & SEAL911 coordinate recoveries and prevention.

The Big Print Is Coming & Bitcoin Will Still Fail You... | Bitcoin Simply

This episode links energy-driven inflation and central-bank printing to actionable Bitcoin strategies—SAS mining, crypto-collateral loans, and faith-guided stewardship.

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The REAL Bitcoin Bottom Is NOT In Yet... Bill Barhydt Explains Why

A forward-looking conversation on tokenizing finance, AI-powered wallets, custody reforms, and the urgent need for legal protections for crypto.

How Solana's Largest Perp DEX Was Exploited for $285 Million

A deep dive into the $285M Drift Protocol exploit: how compromised keys, permissive multisigs, and oracle fakery cascaded across DeFi integrations — and the practical fixes teams must adopt now.

How Bitcoin Is Both a Risk Asset and a Hedge Against Debasement

Jim Ferrioli explains Bitcoin's macro role, miner-cost bottoms, and on-chain valuation frameworks—practical signals for crypto allocation, tokenization winners, and risk management.

DEX in the City: Why the Prediction Market Bans Could Just Be Beginning

CFTC shifts to formal rulemaking as regulators, courts, and markets grapple with prediction‑market rules, Canton vs. public chains, platform liability, and cross‑agency harmonization.