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A Bone-Deep Feeling About Bitcoin
On a live, unedited News Surge, the host explains the Core and Knots fight with a marriage analogy and tells holders to plan how they protect their coins.
One sat. That was the fee to move bitcoin on September 22, 2025, even with more than 120,000 transactions waiting in the mempool. The host of the Mining Disrupt News Surge read that number on air that Monday, with the price just shy of $116,000, and told viewers he had a bone-deep feeling. In his words, "we are about to witness something really historic for Bitcoin."
He ran that episode live and unedited. The first clip was Michael Saylor of Strategy on the fight over OP_RETURN limits between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots supporters. Saylor called the community's angry rejection of the change a healthy response, and warned that the biggest danger to Bitcoin is a talented, well-funded developer trying to make it better. His line: "the good idea for Bitcoin will destroy Bitcoin."
The host put it in terms of a marriage. Raising the 21 million coin limit is a spouse asking for a divorce. Wanting separate bank accounts is a smaller change that still raises questions. The Core and Knots fight, he said, is more like arguing over a Toyota or a Ford. It does not end the marriage, but it makes you ask why you are not on the same page.
He also passed along a post from British HODL telling holders to spend time this quarter planning how to protect their coins legally, physically and spiritually. The host asked viewers where their seed phrase is kept, who holds the other keys in a multisig setup, and how their state or country taxes a sale. He asked them to think of money as time and energy, and to spend at least a week of serious conversations on it.
On price, he explained why a small amount of trading can set the value of millions of coins in cold storage, using toilet paper during the pandemic and rare Magic: The Gathering cards. He buys through automatic Cash App purchases from his paycheck and avoids debt. He said a $1 million bitcoin is a matter of time, possibly before 2030, and that within 12 months people would look back and see how cheap it was.
The next year went the other way. Bitcoin closed that day at $112,959. On October 26, 2026, it was at $80,011. That is below the price on the day of the show. The host's $1 million target has a 2030 horizon and is still open.
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