BTC VII: A Vegas Summit, and Party at Tyson's Tiger Mansion
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🧙 The largest OP_Return in history. Lifofifo, a well-known Bitcoin developer, accomplished the feat with the first-ever 1 megger Block 896696, including all 3,333 of his Wizards of Ord collection in the data. The groundbreaking move came amid a heated debate over expanding OP_Return's arbitrary data limits.
🥇 Why "digital gold" undersells Bitcoin. It's a misrepresentation that reduces the world's most revolutionary form of money into a mere store of value, argues Isaiah Austin for Bitcoin Magazine.
📈 Jim Chanos bets on BTC, against Strategy. The veteran investor known for shorting Enron is buying Bitcoin while shorting Michael Saylor's Strategy (MSTR), the largest corporate holder of BTC. His strategy may seem counter-intuitive, but it's a longterm bet on Strategy being over-valued as its growth outpaces that of the BTC it holds.
We promised you more details about Vegas ... well here's the big news.
Arch is hosting Bitcoin All-In! The Bitcoin Programmability Summit on May 28, from 11-4 PT at the Illuminarium, a fully immersive venue right off the famed Vegas strip.
Some of the top minds in Bitcoin will be there, with sessions covering:
- BTC DeFi & Staking: Farmer Joe (PUPS), Matt Mudano (Arch), Jan Smejkal (XVerse), Chan Ahn (Brotocol), Zhixi Zhang (Build on Bitcoin)
- Ordinals: Tommy TwoClubs, Steven Miller, Snooptoshi, Camski (Mood Labs), and NFT Supply (SatRepublic)
- Custodians: Curtis Oh (Kraken) and others
- Investors: Toby Lewis (Trio Capital), Brent Fisher (DPI Capital)
- BTC stablecoins and primitives: CJ Konstantinos (The People's Reserve), Jakob Schillinger (Hermetica), Domo (Creator of BRC-20s), Elizabeth Olson (Magic Eden), Robert Clarke (Satflow)
In addition to lunch, we're serving up a special event space highlighting the top Runes/Ordinals communities out there.
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Join us after the side summit for our happy hour at the Cosmopolitan's famous Chandelier Bar and the Bitcoin Programmability Summit's official after party with Trio at Mike Tyson's Tiger Mansion!
Thank you to all our sponsors and partners helping make these events happen!
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What the Samourai Case Means for the Future of BTC Privacy https://t.co/PDTUX0Q9z8
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