Mirra brief · weekly · 2026-07-20
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Lyn Alden launches ORANGE JUICE, a Bitcoin-backed permanent-capital company, while spending days defending her stance that the BIP-110 fork is a non-emergency that doesn't materially reduce Bitcoin spam.
Monetary System & Bitcoin
Alden's most contentious topic this week was BIP-110/OP_RETURN. Her most-discussed post (47 replies) argued the fork is a non-emergency that merely rearranges which bucket spam goes into, since spammers can still break data into chunks in the witness for ~1% extra cost [doc 4, doc 22]. She identifies as a 'consensus conservative' who by default doesn't support forks under a year old [doc 4]. She maintains that UTXO bloat from runes was a 2023 fad that has since normalized, and that BIP-110 doesn't address UTXO bloat anyway [doc 4]. If she thought spam could persistently price out monetary use, she'd 'just sell the coin and move on' [doc 24]. She also noted Bitcoin is still worth more than all other cryptos combined (excluding stablecoins) despite the proliferation of millions of altcoins [doc 1].
Digital Credit & Markets
Alden announced ORANGE JUICE, a permanent-capital company backed by a Bitcoin treasury, raising $40 million to acquire, improve, and permanently hold cash-flowing businesses [doc 9, doc 61]. She contrasts this with traditional PE which leveres companies up and flips them in 4-7 years [doc 9, doc 61]. She argues that combining diverse cash flows with Bitcoin makes sense, allowing the company to short fiat and go long Bitcoin with an indefinite time horizon [doc 25]. None of the founders including herself are taking a salary [doc 20].
Personal & Creative
Alden shared photos of her father-in-law's classic office at her place in Cairo, noting she avoids sharing exterior shots because AI can doxx exact locations [doc 23]. She playfully defended her use of em dashes against AI-slop accusations [doc 38] and promoted Joe Carlasare's Bitcoin thriller 'Unconfiscatable,' which she beta-read [doc 39].
other
Mostly one-liners and GIFs, including noting the X algorithm improved [doc 11, doc 48, doc 60], recommending her editor [doc 10], and pleasantries [doc 12, doc 26, doc 30, doc 53, doc 54, doc 62].
Also this week
Macroeconomics & Fiscal Policy (~11%): Alden resurfaced her own past commentary on the deficit, noting it's 'still true' [doc 49]. When quote-tweeting Paul Graham on spending, she reiterated that the fiscal problem is structural and that she accounts for it in her investment analysis rather than expecting a fix [doc 56]. She also retweeted context on June CPI falling to 3.5% [doc 34] and US federal debt hitting a record $39.4 trillion [doc 21].
Geopolitics & Energy (~11%): Alden highlighted escalating Mideast tensions, retweeting reporting of 9 consecutive nights of US strikes on Iran and oil climbing to $88 [doc 15]. She also surfaced US crude inventories being at a 45-year low with only 43 days of supply [doc 36] and noted that energy weapons like anti-drone lasers will become normal to cost-efficiently respond to abundant cheap drone threats [doc 28].
Technology & AI (~7%): Alden resurfaced her August 2023 newsletter predicting that AIs would be the only defense against AI cyberattackers, noting 'we're entering that era' after HuggingFace reported defending an autonomous AI attack with AI [doc 5]. She retweeted points about Chinese companies distilling frontier models and open-weight models like Kimi K3 fixing security issues that guarded commercial models refuse to [doc 6, doc 29].