Brady and John open on Bitcoin Pizza Day — Laszlo's 10,000 BTC purchase of two Papa John's pizzas now worth roughly $770 million marked Bitcoin's evolution from cryptographic curiosity into a medium of exchange
SpaceX's S1 filing discloses 18,712 BTC held at a $35,000 cost basis, making the company the seventh-largest public Bitcoin holder ahead of Coinbase and adding institutional weight to the largest IPO in US history
Strategy crossed BlackRock's IBIT this week to become the single largest Bitcoin holder on the planet, adding another 25,000 BTC for $2 billion and out-stacking the most successful ETF in US financial history
Strive launched SADA, a perpetual preferred stock paying 13% daily Bitcoin-backed dividends — Joe Burnett frames it as a new product inside an old wrapper, echoing the 1971 money market fund innovation that took decades to find its container
The ARMA bill, introduced with 17 co-sponsors, would codify the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve executive order and authorize the US Treasury to buy up to 200,000 BTC per year for five years, targeting one million coins or roughly 5% of global supply
Iran launched Bitcoin-settled maritime cargo insurance, a vivid example of a sovereign nation routing around the dollar system and validating Yan Pritzker's 2021 prediction that countries outside the Western axis would adopt Bitcoin first
Fed minutes signal higher-for-longer rates with the market now pricing only a 1.5% chance of a December rate cut — John argues Fed hawkishness matters less in a fiscal-dominance regime where Treasury spending sets the tone
Bitcoin's implied volatility hit a seven-month low as AI takes the investor spotlight, but long-term holder supply is approaching a record high — Brady and John read this as a healthy floor forming around $70K rather than weakness
Mark Cuban sold his Bitcoin claiming it failed as a hedge — John pushes back that you buy hedges before the event, not after, noting Bitcoin is up roughly 650% since February 2020 versus QQQ at 200%, gold at 175%, and the S&P at 145%
Harvard trimmed its Bitcoin position to roughly $120 million and exited Ethereum entirely, likely rotating into AI exposure — Brady closes with a look at Vigil Protocol, Swan's first non-Bitcoin product, an AI-powered financial life mapping tool at vigilprotocol.ai
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