🪙 80k BTC that recently moved?
Turns out they belong to Adam Back.

🗣️ Back and Peter Todd were basically portrayed as the "collective Satoshi" in the HBO doc — and honestly, it’s not a bad theory.

So Satoshi might already be here, slowly legitimizing his coins.

And given Back’s cryptography background, he could be sitting on a lot more wallets.

Thankfully, he’s a Bitcoin maximalist — not here to ruin it.

❓Why the Yuppie Elite Still Dismiss Bitcoin

Despite high IQs and elite educations, many MBA grads and professionals still scoff at Bitcoin. This piece breaks down why.

✨ It starts with trust in the system
The most successful yuppies believe in the system they mastered—elite schools, jobs, promotions. Trusting that system makes it hard to accept Bitcoin’s core thesis: the system is broken.

🪙Bitcoin requires a worldview shift
Bitcoin maximalism demands a deep understanding of monetary policy, scarcity, and distrust in central banks. Most elite professionals never learned this—intentionally or not—and don’t have time to reeducate themselves.

📉Their heuristics reject it
Yuppies are trained to filter out scams quickly. Bitcoin’s early aesthetics and community trip every alarm—so they dismiss it without deeper research.

🗣️Social validation drives belief
In the yuppie world, ideas are trusted when other smart yuppies believe them. Bitcoin lacks that internal social signal, so it’s automatically “not worth your time.”

🔒Don’t trust, verify – to a fault
Ironically, their rationality keeps them out. They won’t buy until they fully understand—and they don’t trust anyone enough to bridge the gap.

❓ Why this matters
These are the people most insulated from Bitcoin’s upside—until it becomes too big to ignore. When they do join, it may be because their old system starts to fail.

Eventually, price will force belief. But it won’t be because of understanding.

🧠 The top DeFi projects by 7d mindshare:

1️⃣ AAVE
2️⃣ Pendle
3️⃣ Mantle

Growing revenue and organic mindshare is all a project needs to be successful.

🧪 Farming points on Project X (new HyperEVM DEX)

Project X is a brand-new DEX built on HyperEVM by well-known influencers Lamboland and BOBBY. It launched last night and immediately kicked off a points campaign.

The project has no investors, but it’s already buzzing across CT. Tons of major accounts follow their X profile, and its current Moni Score is 5184.

Alongside the launch, a points farming campaign began. Every day, 1 million points are distributed among users — so early participation gives you a better share, as TVL is rapidly growing (already over $22M in <24h).

How to farm points:
🟢Connect your wallet on the site — using a ref link gives you +10% point boost
🟢Make swaps
🟢Add liquidity
🟢Invite friends

Daily leaderboard multiplier (first month only):
🟠Rank 1–10: 2.5x
🟠Rank 11–25: 2x
🟠Rank 26–50: 1.5x
🟠Rank 51–100: 1.2x
🟠Rank 100+: 1x

Providing liquidity gives the most points — but it’s based on fees earned, not total size. A smaller LP position in active pools can outperform idle large ones.

❕As always, be careful — the DEX is new and unaudited.
DYOR before putting serious funds into LPs.

🔗Full details on point distribution here

⚠️ $47.6M in $ETH shorts liquidated in 4 hours

🌟 Adam Back: The cryptographer who inspired Satoshi

Today’s spotlight is on a figure who shaped Bitcoin from the shadows. His ideas helped define the first cryptocurrency — and still influence its future.

(Previous post on Satoshi Nakamoto)

Adam Back is a British cryptographer, inventor of Hashcash, and CEO of Blockstream — a company focused on building Bitcoin infrastructure.

🔖 Back introduced key concepts that Bitcoin was built upon:
➡️Proof-of-work as resistance to spam and trust-based systems
➡️ Decentralization and censorship resistance
➡️ Scaling through sidechains and the Lightning Network

Why he’s a foundational figure in crypto:

➡️Creator of Hashcash — directly cited by Satoshi in the Bitcoin whitepaper
➡️ One of the first people Satoshi contacted while developing BTC
➡️ Co-founder of Blockstream — a major player in Bitcoin’s second-layer tech

👀Fun fact: Adam Back is often named as one of the few "living candidates" for being Satoshi. He denies it — but his technical background and timing make him a frequent suspect.

➡️Back is the bridge between 90s crypto-anarchism and today’s blockchain infrastructure. His work is where theory meets real digital freedom.

🚛 Trump-linked token $WLFI may list soon

World Liberty Financial — the Trump-affiliated company — may be moving ahead with its $WLFI token listing.

According to recent voting results, over 11 billion votes were cast in favor of the listing.

All signs point to an imminent launch.

💰 Tether just minted $1B in USDT

👛 How Privy embedded wallets work — simple version

Privy lets apps create self-custodial crypto wallets for users — no browser extensions, no seed phrases. Just log in with email or Google, and the wallet is ready to use inside the app.

Here’s how it stays secure and simple:
➡️Key is split in two parts: one stored in a secure hardware zone (TEE), the other encrypted with your login
➡️Key is never stored whole — it’s rebuilt briefly only to sign transactions
➡️You stay in control — only you can trigger signing by logging in
➡️Developers get full flexibility — like custom policies, passkeys, and recovery options

Privy powers 75M+ accounts, handles 85M+ monthly transactions, and is used by apps like Zora, Jupiter, and Blackbird.

It’s like Magic or Web3Auth — but built for scale, with stronger security and real developer control.