PRIME MEMBER EXCLUSIVE | 3 Months Free Trial

Auto-renews at INR 199/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime. Offer ends 15 July, 2026.
Good for Bitcoin cover art

Good for Bitcoin

Good for Bitcoin

Written by: Brandon Marshall & Kate Parkman
Listen for free

Good For Bitcoin is a weekly show recorded live every Friday where we recap events of the week and talk about everything good for Bitcoin. If it’s built on Bitcoin, then it’s Good for Bitcoin!

2026 Brandon Marshall & Kate Parkman
Economics Politics & Government
Episodes
  • Saylor Says He Never Sold a Sat
    Jun 12 2026

    A week after Strategy quietly sold 32 BTC, Saylor tweeted he's 'never sold a single sat.' Brandon and Kate call out the goalpost-moving, react to a Saylor clip, then run the tape: Strategy buys 1,550 BTC, Strive needles back, Botanix shuts down its whole network, Coinbase hands AI agents your account, SBF begs for a pardon, and a classic bottom signal flashes.

    In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:

    • Saylor watch: a week after Strategy quietly sold 32 BTC (~0.004% of its stack), Saylor tweeted he's 'never sold a single sat.' We react to his clip and the goalpost-moving — then Strategy bought 1,550 BTC, pushing holdings to 845,256. STRC monthly dividends start July 15.
    • Strive fired back, buying exactly 32 BTC after Strategy sold 32 — now at 19,032 BTC. It's using sale proceeds to pay down debt and buy back shares, and regained Nasdaq compliance after its reverse split. Orange BTC added 41 (now 3,803).
    • SpaceX looks like a Tesla-style buy-and-hold, so don't expect weekly buys. Brandon snagged 10 pre-allocated SpaceX IPO shares through Fidelity.
    • Botanix is shutting down its entire network. Bridged BTC peaked near 450 in Sept 2025 and sits under 50 today — holders have ~30 days to unilaterally exit the remaining 47 BTC. A reminder why unilateral exit matters; ~4 years in, it couldn't ride the cycle.
    • Coinbase for Agents lets your AI agent trade, pay, and run workflows on your Coinbase account via MCP or CLI (x402 next). Good for round-the-clock, data-informed trades — but prompt-injection risk makes us wary of handing over the keys.
    • Quick hits: SBF filed for a presidential pardon on his 25-year FTX fraud sentence (we doubt it lands); Tether briefly flipped Ethereum for the #2 market-cap spot.
    • Bullish close: more than half of all circulating BTC is now held at an unrealized loss — a signal that's marked every major bear-market bottom.
    • Follow the show on X — @goodforbtc.


    Hosts:

    • Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing
    • Kate Parkman — @katemparkman


    Subscribe & Follow:

    • goodforbitcoin.com
    • YouTube
    • Spotify
    • Amazon Music
    • Apple Podcasts
    • Pocket Casts
    • RSS
    Show More Show Less
    24 mins
  • Claude Found a Zcash Counterfeiting Bug
    Jun 5 2026

    Kate's out sick, so Brandon flies solo. The headline: a researcher used Claude Opus 4.8 to find a counterfeiting bug in Zcash's shielded pool that could've minted unlimited coins undetectably — ZEC fell 30%. Plus a Bitcoin selloff below $60K, Strategy's quiet sale, and Lava's Bitcoin-back card.

    In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:

    • Kate's out sick, so it's a short, solo, rapid-fire show this week.
    • Market check: Bitcoin slid below $60K, down 21%+ on the week, with Fear & Greed in extreme fear.
    • Treasury watch (busier than usual): buys from Strive (+2,500 to ~19,000 BTC), Orange BTC, Capital B, Smarter Web and DDC; sells from ProCap (-52) and Canada's Bitcoin Treasury Corp (-3.64).
    • Strategy sold 32 BTC (~$2.5M) — just 0.004% of its stack — yet got blamed for the selloff, even though it bought ~25,000 BTC two weeks ago. The frustrating part: Saylor stayed silent. With an avg cost near $75K, MSTR and STRC both dipped.
    • Lava launched a Bitcoin-back Visa: up to 5% back in BTC at partners, 3% in the US, 1% abroad, no annual or FX fees. It's a secured hybrid funded by your Lava balance — top up via bank transfer, stablecoins, or a Bitcoin-backed loan.
    • The big one: researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical counterfeiting bug in Zcash's Orchard pool that could've undetectably minted unlimited ZEC — and its privacy means no one can prove if it was exploited. Arthur Hayes dumped his stack. The kicker: Hornby found it using Claude Opus 4.8, which surfaced it ~25% of the time. ZEC fell 30%, with Zooko pointing to a network upgrade to restore trust.
    • Quick hits: the US Treasury froze Iranian leaders' accounts and seized $1B+ in stablecoins (easy to seize — unlike Bitcoin); the first Coinbase x Fannie Mae crypto-backed mortgage funded; and a crypto-tax hearing next week with seven House bills on stablecoins, mining, double-taxation, and a possible de minimis exemption.
    • Follow the show on X — @goodforbtc.


    Hosts:

    • Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing
    • Kate Parkman — @katemparkman


    Subscribe & Follow:

    • goodforbitcoin.com
    • YouTube
    • Spotify
    • Amazon Music
    • Apple Podcasts
    • Pocket Casts
    • RSS
    Show More Show Less
    13 mins
  • Someone Burned 107 Bitcoin
    May 29 2026

    Someone moved 107 Bitcoin — nearly $8 million — out of ten-year-old, Mt. Gox-era addresses and torched it in a single burst of transactions on Monday. No note, no explanation. Brandon and Kate run the theories, then work through a packed week of treasury moves, Kraken's "native Bitcoin" yield product, and Stacks finally winning over Bitcoin Magazine.

    In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss:

    • Quick recap of Wednesday's Hermetica episode: the hBTC cap went from 50 → 75 BTC and filled in under 24 hours — again. Go watch it if you missed it.
    • Treasury watch: Strive adds 1,109 BTC to reach 16,500 BTC, edging past Coinbase's holdings by 8 BTC; DDC Enterprise adds 131 BTC for 2,714 total.
    • Strategy buys back $1.5B of its 2029 convertible bonds at ~92 cents on the dollar — trimming total debt from $8.2B to $6.7B, with $871M still reserved to fund STRC payments.
    • 🔥 The mystery: someone emptied five reused, Mt. Gox-era addresses (originally funded with 136 BTC back in April 2014) and sent ~107 BTC — almost $8M — to a provably-unspendable burn address, all in the same minute. Theories range from tax-loss harvesting to a vow of poverty to an AI agent gone rogue.
    • A New York case tries to claw back Bitcoin losses on state grounds — Brandon and Kate think it gets tossed, since Bitcoin isn't a New York-only network.
    • Kraken launches "Bitcoin Vaults," marketed as Bitcoin in, Bitcoin out — but under the hood it's KBTC wrapped onto the Ink network, routed through Veda vaults and Aave/Morpho strategies managed by Santora. It's CeFi yield; just be honest about the trust assumptions.
    • Stacks lands its biggest validation yet: UTXO Management — David Bailey's asset arm, now folded into Nakamoto, parent of Bitcoin Magazine and the Bitcoin Conference — becomes the inaugural participant in stacking on Stacks. Notable given Bitcoin Magazine once made Stacks ineligible for coverage over the STX token.
    • Quick hits: Coinbase brings back direct deposit so you can get paid in Bitcoin; SoFi becomes the first US national bank to launch its own stablecoin (SoFi USD); Cash App wires stablecoins into existing balances, so your balance can send and receive USDC across Solana, Ethereum, Polygon, and Arbitrum.
    • Follow the show's new handle on X — @goodforbtc — and find everything at goodforbitcoin.com.


    Hosts:

    • Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing
    • Kate Parkman — @katemparkman


    Subscribe & Follow:

    • goodforbitcoin.com
    • YouTube
    • Spotify
    • Amazon Music
    • Apple Podcasts
    • Pocket Casts
    • RSS
    Show More Show Less
    32 mins
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
No reviews yet