Bitmela

Now, a product launch at the Bitshala FOSS Stage! @theanmolsharma_ officially introduces Shroud, a Bitcoin wallet built around Silent Payments (BIP352). With traditional Bitcoin addresses, reusing one address for multiple payments can make transactions easier to link. Shroud tackles this problem. Share one reusable Silent Payment address. Every payment generates a unique on-chain destination, making it harder for outside observers to link payments to the same recipient. Under the hood, this involves key derivation, scanning the blockchain for incoming payments, and constructing transactions securely. Welcome to the world, Shroud! Download: shroudwallet.com

he/she launching on 11/11 at 11 PM

@thebitmela recap 🙋🏻 It was when a spurt of short videos of @travelwbitcoin talking about a new kind of event related to Bitcoin started appearing on my X feed out of the blue. At the very first instance, the concept of introducing $BTC to noobs in a playful way struck a chord with me. I would like to call it 'The No-brainer Approach'. A perfect gateway for the nocoiners! I kept revisiting the posts to get a hang of how the event would play out. And it was when I found that it's not actually a typical conference but a very thoughtfully curated fair for Bitcoin. A 'मेला' open to everyone with no prior experience or knowledge on Bitcoin or even blockchain in general. Wow, now that's an event I would like to take my spouse to, to educate her on the importance of hard money and trust me, while being there for both the days, not a single moment ever felt pressuresome especially for my partner. Zero judgments! Kudos to all the lovely attendees & a big shout to the organizers, it was a breeze of an event! 🤌 I would like to also specifically point out that the pricing of the tickets & the scale of the event were unmatched. We couldn't have asked for more. What a quality of an event! 👌 My countdown for the next chapter is already on. It's only going to get bigger & better with every edition. Long live Bitmela! #MoneyNeverSleeps P.S. Btw, what's with the one-eyed symbol? I am curious. 👀

1,000+ Attendees. 40+ Speakers. 2 Unforgettable Days. 1 Big Mela. This is what India’s first Bitcoin Festival looked like 🇮🇳

B HODL UPDATE @bitcoinhodlco | AQSE: $HODL | OTCQB: $BHODF | FRA: $F5S Corporate: Annual Report and Investor Presentation 2026 Our Annual Report and Investor Presentation 2026, for the year ended 30 June 2026, is now available. Highlights include: • 167.487 BTC held at 21 October 2026 • Sats per share up 8.8% since the proceeds of admission were deployed, from 110.7 to 120.4 • £109,575 raised through the ATM, only at a premium to NAV, and 3.19 million shares bought back below NAV • Launch of our Lightning Service Provider platform in May 2026, our second core business line • An outline of Ordinary Backed Loans, for shareholder approval at the AGM We've written the report both for shareholders who are new to Bitcoin as well as those who have held for a long time, with short primers on ‘Why Bitcoin’ and ‘Why Lightning’ to make the business and our business plan as accessible as possible to a wide audience. Business Development: Bitmela, India I travelled to Jaipur for @thebitmela, India's first Bitcoin festival. It brought together more than 1,000 attendees and 40+ speakers, with Bitcoiners flying in from Kenya, South Africa, Thailand, the US, the UK and beyond. Going was a direct expression of the strategy in our annual report. As the "Beyond the Lucky Billion" section explains, only around one billion people live with access both to a relatively stable currency and to the rule of law. Everyone else is Lightning's real addressable market. That is why a meaningful share of B HODL's business development is directed at the global south: where existing financial infrastructure is ripe for new technologies, the need is greatest, and so is the likely growth in demand for Lightning services. Our market is global by nature, not by ambition. Bitmela was a terrific gathering filled with fascinating people working in, or interested in, the industry; but two highlights perhaps. First, it gave us access to high-net-worth individuals and potential investors in India. Secondly, I sponsored the festival's ideathon, which put us in direct contact with new builders, some of whom may need LSP services for the products they are building. Two such examples were Lilpay (fronted by @airxashish), and PayAgents. Lilpay presented a really interesting online micropayments solution - it's astonishing to realize we still haven't really solved online micro payments, especially when it is exactly the kind of product Lightning is built for. PayAgents (@payagents) are aiming to enable AI agents easily to to pay and get paid, using Bitcoin over Lightning as a simple solution. Such ideas are compelling evidence that younger builders are moving in the right direction to solve really interesting problems, and in a direction where BHODL may be able to gather new partners and forge new business relationships. Congratulations from me and from the company to all the finalists for an excellent set of presentations. Keep building! I also gave a keynote (in B HODL merch, of course) on hard money: what people do when the money in their pocket stops working. I drew on my own family's experience of hyperinflation in Zimbabwe and what we did as a result. A few posts in thread to give a flavour of the event. Media: The Bitcoin Edge Podcast and Times Radio I joined @PaulaBTCEdge on The Bitcoin Edge show for a wide-ranging conversation covering growing up in Zimbabwe and Syria, hyperinflation, self-custody, AI and hacks, privacy, why Bitcoin is a human rights issue, and my prior work with Bitcoin Policy UK. Additionally, I was delighted to join @mulkerrins on @TimesRadio for a briefing on the Binance hack and its implications. Catch up link below, time stamp for the start of the interview is 1hr 07. Thanks for having me on! And thank you as ever to all shareholders for your continued support. Follow B HODL for updates on Bitcoin treasury strategy, Lightning infrastructure, and UK policy engagement.