# Yan Pritzker

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Why Is Bitcoin’s Price Lagging? The Truth Behind Whale Selling

Whales & Long-Term Holders Selling: Profit-taking by OG wallets is redistributing supply. Many are diversifying custody or rotating some BTC into ETFs for margin/borrowing flexibility. Seasonality Matters: Bitcoin weakness in August/September is common; thin liquidity + vacation season amplify dips…

Why Bitcoin Adoption Has Stalled with Daniel Batten

Daniel Batten argues Bitcoin has largely blunted environmental FUD, but is now losing a broader narrative war and needs an “influence upgrade” to reach the next adoption cohorts He frames the problem as a sales and marketing gap where Bitcoiners often blame newcomers instead of meeting them wh…

Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value — You're Just Using the Wrong Ruler

Bitcoin has no intrinsic value." It's one of the most repeated phrases in every Bitcoin debate. But what if the people saying it are just measuring it wrong?In this video I break down why every comparison to gold, stocks, or the dollar eventually falls apart — and what Bitcoin's real value proposit…

SpaceX, Strategy, Strive, US Treasury: 4 Big Bitcoin Balance Sheets

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 co…

Café Bitcoin | Day 5 of 50: The Digital ID Retreat, the Race to Avoid the War, and Do the Work

Day 5 of 50 Days for Freedom, hosted from @Swan after Cory's handle hit tech trouble. Swan's buy fee sits at 50 basis points through Labor Day. Framing doc: swan.com/battle. Cory on disagreeing well. Three summers of shows with Vlad Costea despite splitting on layer twos and drivechain. A lot …

Café Bitcoin | Day 7 of 50: Daniel Batten on Bitcoin and Energy, Britain's Curtailment Bill, and Wealth Is Energy

Cory was out for a family wedding, so Brady and Philip hosted from his handle. Also new: a weekly recap song in a different genre each week, covering everything from the previous weeks of the show. Daniel Batten on Cambridge's new number. Its updated assessment puts Bitcoin mining at 59.4% cle…

Café Bitcoin | Coldcard Emergency: What Happened, Who's Affected, and What To Do Now

The event. A firmware flaw in Coldcard seed generation, disclosed the night before, let an attacker recompute private keys outright. By airtime, 594 Bitcoin, put at roughly $38 million on the show, had been swept from about 500 wallets. The mechanism. Yan Pritzker and Swan engineer Steve: the …

Café Bitcoin | Guy Swann and Yan Pritzker on Coldcard, the Asymmetry of Defense, and Privacy | Day 16 of 50

Guy Swan on learning the wrong lessons. The takeaway circulating is "go with the biggest company," which forgets Mt. Gox and FTX and everything else proving size is not safety. His analogy: when a libertarian politician betrays you, libertarianism didn't break, you got scammed. He wants a rule…

Coldcard Fallout, Multisig, and Why We Still Need Bitcoin

The failure, in plain terms A March 2021 firmware change altered how Coldcard generated entropy, leaving seeds near 40 bits instead of the 128 or 256 that makes the cryptography uncrackable, so attackers could simply run the space Who it hit Galaxy's tracking showed the first wave alone above 1,00…

Café Bitcoin | Yan Pritzker on Bitcoin Fork History, the September 1 Hard Fork, and Why Doing Nothing Is the Safest Move | Day 27 of 50

Yan Pritzker, Swan's cofounder and CTO, walks his new essay on Bitcoin fork history, from the 2015 block size debates through the hard fork scheduled for September 1. Published on the Swan blog and posted to X during the show. His own entry point was Ethereum, not Bitcoin. The 2016 DAO rollbac…