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📰 "What Happened This Week In The Bitcoin World" by NM team

You probably think Bitcoin’s quiet summer lull means nothing’s happening—but you’d be wrong. US spot Bitcoin ETFs just pulled in over $981 million across seven straight sessions through July 22, yet a political knife fight in Washington over the CLARITY Act sent BTC from $67,000 to $65,000 in 48 hours. And that’s just where the story starts—because what happened next might tell you more about where Bitcoin’s actually headed than any price chart ever could.

Read: https://nostrmag.com/article/w31bitcoin05
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📰 "A Single Line of Code Just Exposed Nostr’s Achilles' Heel—Here’s Why It Matters" by NM team

You think decentralized protocols are inherently more secure than centralized platforms. But on July 25, a high-severity vulnerability in Nostr's core encryption library proved otherwise—a single malformed payload could crash any client running the affected code...

Read: https://nostrmag.com/article/w31nostr01
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📰 "The Death of the Overwater Bungalow (As You Know It)" by Seoul

The question isn't whether you can afford Bora Bora. The question is whether you can afford to experience it the way it was meant to be experienced—before everyone else figures out what's actually happening. This July, Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora—fresh off receiving two Michelin Keys—quietly repositioned its 27 specialty overwater bungalow suites with private plunge pools as the island's new entry point for serious luxury. The one-bedroom Otemanu suites start at 1,120 square feet. The two-bedroom Poerava suites stretch to 2,228 square feet. And here's what the brochures won't tell you: these aren't for honeymooners.

Read: https://nostrmag.com/article/w31travel01
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FreedomTech · 2d
Sounds like an extremely uptight place to visit.
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📰 "The Clarity Act Is Imploding — And It’s Taking Your Portfolio With It" by NM team

The Clarity Act—the bill that was supposed to end the SEC-CFTC turf war—is now a weapon in a political knife fight over Trump’s $1.2 billion crypto fortune. Prediction markets just crashed the bill’s odds to **30%**, and JPMorgan is warning that every day of delay pushes innovation onto traditional rails—not blockchains. But here’s what nobody’s telling you about the ethics provision that’s about to blow up the entire 2026 crypto narrative, and why the real fight isn’t about Bitcoin at all...

Read: https://nostrmag.com/article/w31bitcoin04
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📰 "What Happened This Week In The Nostr World" by NM team

You think Nostr is still just a Twitter clone for Bitcoiners—it’s not. Block just turned it into an AI communication layer, ten new NIPs shipped this week alone, and a Bluetooth mesh chat app hit GitHub’s #1 trending spot with 32,770 stars. But here’s what nobody’s telling you: when AI agents coordinate on a protocol where you can’t buy attention, the next six months will decide everything. Keep reading.

Read: https://nostrmag.com/article/w31nostr03
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📰 "$38M Coldcard Heist: The Bitcoin Self-Custody Nightmare" by Rhodes

This isn't fear-mongering—it's what happened to roughly 500 Bitcoin holders on July 30, 2026. An attacker drained 594 BTC (worth over $38 million) from Coldcard hardware wallets. Here's the kicker: the victims never made a mistake. Their wallets were compromised by a firmware bug that had been hiding in plain sight since March 2021.

Read: https://nostrmag.com/article/w31bitcoin03
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Zogorich · 3d
Good thing that MK 3 firmware is open source. Imagine a close source wallet? This would never been found out!!
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📰 "Bitcoin’s civil war just went public — and the market is bleeding" by Rhodes

Here’s what the whales aren’t telling you — and why the next 48 hours could decide whether you buy the dip or watch it dip further. Everyone thinks the Fed is driving this crash. They’re wrong. The real threat isn’t interest rates...

Read: https://nostrmag.com/articleland/w31bitcoin
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📰 "What Happened This Week In The Luxury World Travel" by NM team

You think luxury travel in 2026 is about five-star hotels and suite upgrades—it's not. The data proves the most coveted thing a wealthy traveler can have right now is something money alone can't buy: entry. And this week, one luxury cruise with nearly 2,000 passengers just got turned away from an entire country over who was on board. But here's what nobody's telling you about what this means for where the elite will actually go next—and why the usual summer hotspots are suddenly losing their shine.

Read: https://nostrmag.com/articleland/w30travel02
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📰 "What Happened This Week In The Nostr World" by NM team

You think Nostr is just another decentralized Twitter clone that’s losing steam. Jack Dorsey’s Block just launched Buzz—a full-blown Slack and GitHub alternative built entirely on Nostr, dropping on July 21 with code already on GitHub under Apache 2.0. But here’s what nobody’s telling you about what this means for how we’ll work, communicate, and yes—even travel—in the next 18 months, and why the luxury travel set should be paying very close attention.

Read: https://nostrmag.com/article/w30nostr02
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📰 "What Happened This Week In The Bitcoin World" by NM team

You probably think Bitcoin's quiet summer lull means nothing's happening—but you'd be wrong. US spot Bitcoin ETFs just logged their longest winning streak since May, pulling in over $981 million across seven consecutive sessions through July 22. Yet even as institutional money floods back, a political knife fight in Washington over the CLARITY Act sent BTC from $67,000 to $65,000 in 48 hours. And that's just where the story starts—because what happened next might tell you more about where Bitcoin's actually headed than any price chart ever could.

Read: https://nostrmag.com/articleland/w30bitcoin04
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