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Liquid's 3,996 BTC Peg-Out Turns Into an On-Chain Negotiation
Liquid remains paused while Blockstream and the self-described whitehats negotiate the return of 3,996 BTC through signed OP_RETURN messages.
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@TFTC21Nobody knows what was said in the encrypted messages, but the whitehat's final public on-chain response to Blockstream was just a sad face emoji.
@TFTC21Most people get their bitcoin news from people who don't understand macro, energy, or policy. The Bitcoin Brief connects all of it. Every weekday. Free. tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
@TFTC21Samson Mow confirms 3,400 of the ~4,000 BTC withdrawn from Liquid Network has been returned to the federation wallet after Blockstream patched the affected bridge nodes. "Approximately 598 BTC remains outstanding, and Blockstream continues to engage with the white-hat hackers." Liquid remains paused while the team works on additional fixes, resolves the chain split, and prepares for a safe restart. Do not send bitcoin to Liquid peg-in addresses until further notice.
@TFTC21.@OpenSats has sent ~41.9 billion sats to 426 grantees across 40+ countries. x.com/OpenSats/statu…
@TFTC21"I hope in 20 years I'm not on a documentary saying 'we saw the signs, we had time to act, and we just didn't take advantage of it, and then taxpayers ended up footing the bill.'" Every year hits new highs in opaque assets, shadow reinsurance, and leverage. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21David Sacks: "There's a writer named Nirit Weiss-Blatt who traced hundreds of these astroturfed doomer groups funded by three EA billionaires. Dustin Moskowitz, Jaan Tallinn, and Vitalik Buterin. Vitalik gave $600 million of dog coins to Future of Life Foundation." "We are gonna have probably 100 new EA billionaires as a result of the Anthropic IPO. It will be like George Soros 100x or 1000x." x.com/dnapway/status…
@TFTC21Russia's gold exports to Hong Kong hit $14.4B in the first 7 months of 2026, already 50% above the full-year 2025 total. Western sanctions closed London to Russian bullion. The gold didn't disappear. It just moved east.
@TFTC21This guy recorded a 4-min video explaining a shower drain hair problem, fed it to GPT-6 Astra, and watched it design a custom part in Fusion 360 using computer use. 3D printed it. Fit on the first try. x.com/DanielGri/stat…
@TFTC21"This sort of thing is somehow legal. You can move assets to jurisdictions with more lenient capital requirements and lever far more. Reports suggest 50 to 1." PE firms are hiding life insurer leverage in Bermuda subsidiaries where regulators can't see it. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21The EU just committed €200M to Greenland for satellite internet, clean energy, and critical mineral access, after Trump repeatedly floated buying the island. Greenland holds 25 of the 34 minerals the EU lists as critical for reducing dependence on China. Starlink doesn't even operate in Greenland. The EU is using Eutelsat OneWeb instead, roughly half the speed at a higher price. x.com/vonderleyen/st…
@TFTC21"This is in effect a taxpayer bailout, but it's not one that ever needs to get voted on. It just happens automatically." The insurer that held treasuries and the one that went 100% into junk get treated the same. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21x.com/i/article/2096…
@TFTC21Nobody knows what was said in the encrypted messages, but the whitehat's final public on-chain response to Blockstream was just a sad face emoji.
@TFTC21Most people get their bitcoin news from people who don't understand macro, energy, or policy. The Bitcoin Brief connects all of it. Every weekday. Free. tftc.io/bitcoin-brief
@TFTC21Samson Mow confirms 3,400 of the ~4,000 BTC withdrawn from Liquid Network has been returned to the federation wallet after Blockstream patched the affected bridge nodes. "Approximately 598 BTC remains outstanding, and Blockstream continues to engage with the white-hat hackers." Liquid remains paused while the team works on additional fixes, resolves the chain split, and prepares for a safe restart. Do not send bitcoin to Liquid peg-in addresses until further notice.
@TFTC21.@OpenSats has sent ~41.9 billion sats to 426 grantees across 40+ countries. x.com/OpenSats/statu…
@TFTC21"I hope in 20 years I'm not on a documentary saying 'we saw the signs, we had time to act, and we just didn't take advantage of it, and then taxpayers ended up footing the bill.'" Every year hits new highs in opaque assets, shadow reinsurance, and leverage. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21David Sacks: "There's a writer named Nirit Weiss-Blatt who traced hundreds of these astroturfed doomer groups funded by three EA billionaires. Dustin Moskowitz, Jaan Tallinn, and Vitalik Buterin. Vitalik gave $600 million of dog coins to Future of Life Foundation." "We are gonna have probably 100 new EA billionaires as a result of the Anthropic IPO. It will be like George Soros 100x or 1000x." x.com/dnapway/status…
@TFTC21Russia's gold exports to Hong Kong hit $14.4B in the first 7 months of 2026, already 50% above the full-year 2025 total. Western sanctions closed London to Russian bullion. The gold didn't disappear. It just moved east.
@TFTC21This guy recorded a 4-min video explaining a shower drain hair problem, fed it to GPT-6 Astra, and watched it design a custom part in Fusion 360 using computer use. 3D printed it. Fit on the first try. x.com/DanielGri/stat…
@TFTC21"This sort of thing is somehow legal. You can move assets to jurisdictions with more lenient capital requirements and lever far more. Reports suggest 50 to 1." PE firms are hiding life insurer leverage in Bermuda subsidiaries where regulators can't see it. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21The EU just committed €200M to Greenland for satellite internet, clean energy, and critical mineral access, after Trump repeatedly floated buying the island. Greenland holds 25 of the 34 minerals the EU lists as critical for reducing dependence on China. Starlink doesn't even operate in Greenland. The EU is using Eutelsat OneWeb instead, roughly half the speed at a higher price. x.com/vonderleyen/st…
@TFTC21"This is in effect a taxpayer bailout, but it's not one that ever needs to get voted on. It just happens automatically." The insurer that held treasuries and the one that went 100% into junk get treated the same. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21x.com/i/article/2096…
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