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Stacker_Stocks

⚠️ Higher yields and butter smuggling - Snacks

BlokchainB

https://twiiit.com/TheStalwart/status/2102806702865432978

nitter

![](https://m.stacker.news/158803)

## **Hey Snackers,**

If you’re packing small blocks of vacuum sealed product into your suitcase for an international flight, you’re not alone: the latest rage with American tourists is, according to [**the Wall Street Journal**](https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/the-high-stakes-pursuit-of-smuggling-butter-home-from-paris-fa4cee4c?mod=hp_featst_pos5), hauling butter back from France. 

France is, of course, known for its fantastic butter. Much of it is what is known as cultured butter, where the cream is fermented before being churned. This process helps amp up the butterfat content of the end product and gives it that classic straw-colored hue.

Cultured butter of various national origins is widely available in the US, but that hasn’t stopped the craze. The small-scale tourist import trend is, for the record, largely *très bien* so long as you are carrying less than five kilos into the US. 

“Truly melts in your mouth,” was the review in [**an Instagram video**](https://www.instagram.com/reels/DWr6NkwDtF4/) posted by Toronto’s Shawn Molko. While we don’t doubt the accuracy of his review, we’d suggest that artisanally-produced butter carried across international waters might be held to slightly higher standards than merely conforming to ordinary butyraceous thermal properties. 

Stocks dropped as oil reversed course and rose along with Treasury yields. 

## Is the vibe shifting?

Another day, another attempt by the US Treasury Department to lower government bond yields, and another trading session where they rose. 

On Wednesday, for the first time since the financial crisis, the yield on 5-year US government debt rose [**over 5%**](https://x.com/TheStalwart/status/2102806702865432978), a little over a week after 10-year yields crossed the same threshold. 

**The Takeaway** 

Rising global crude oil prices got yields moving higher for both US and European government debt due to inflationary fears, and better-than-expected US manufacturing and services data and a relatively weak auction added additional pressure to Treasuries, [**Bloomberg reported**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-23/us-treasury-five-year-yields-breach-5-for-first-time-since-2007?srnd=homepage-americas).

The Treasury Department said it would buy back $6 billion in long-dated government debt as part of the previously announced plan to try to reduce supply, and thus, drive down rates. As we’ve previously covered, the [**bond market was underwhelmed**](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/business/economy/treasury-repurchase-bessent.html?eafs_enabled=false&utm_source=snacks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=snacks_20260914&utm_content=) when this program was announced earlier this month, and that mood seems little changed.  

Off Wall Street, the economic mood among Americans could worsen markedly: on Wednesday the rise in government bond yields pushed mortgage rates [**past 7%**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-23/us-mortgage-rates-surge-above-7-to-a-more-than-two-year-high?srnd=homepage-americas) for the first time since 2024.

 — [**Ben Walsh**](https://x.com/BenDWalsh)

## A $5,000 Bike Shows Why It’s Hard to Build in America

Bloomberg reports on the struggles of Lauf, which sells high-end bikes that are assembled in the US with components made around the world and especially in China. Indeed, the heart of the global high-end carbon fiber bike industry is in Shenzen, and Lauf told Bloomberg that there is no plant in the US capable of making its lightweight frames.

[**Read more**](https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-us-china-bike-tariffs/?srnd=homepage-americas)

##

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That’s how many company-owned [**McDonald’s**](https://robinhood.com/us/en/stocks/MCD/) locations participated in a pilot program that [**displayed ads for other companies**](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/23/why-mcdonalds-is-building-an-advertising-business.html) at the fast-food behemoth’s digital drive-thru menu boards. McDonald’s hopes to build its ad sales business into a $1 billion a year business. 

## Snacks Shots

* 🏈 **TNF:** The Green Bay Packers are solid favorites in Thursday night’s game against the Atlanta Falcons, with markets pricing in [**a 72% chance**](https://applink.robinhood.com/event_contracts?id=64df4a9d-5197-4585-8238-a1073d81f233) that the Packers win this one.
* **📊 Fed:** Expectations of another rate hike in October are growing, with the market priced chance of a 25 bps rate hike rising to [**65% as of this week**](https://applink.robinhood.com/event_contracts?id=87e20432-8e93-4be8-913b-309475f9544c), up from 41% a week ago and 27% at the beginning of the month.

\*Event contracts are offered through Robinhood Derivatives, LLC — probabilities referenced or sourced from KalshiEx LLC or ForecastEx LLC.

## What else we’re Snackin’ 

* POINT: [**I Gave My Life Over to Meta’s A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away**](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/technology/meta-muse-ai-agent.html)
* COUNTERPOINT: [**Am I too boring to need an AI agent?**](https://www.garbageday.email/p/am-i-too-boring-to-need-an-ai-agent)
* [**Oil industry warns a diesel export ban will raise fuel prices as Trump weighs restrictions**](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/23/trump-diesel-export-ban-gas-prices.html) 
* [**Rosneft billions fed Kremlin-backed money laundering network**](https://www.ft.com/content/fb42c5dd-1550-402c-8881-49a3902710a0?syn-25a6b1a6=1)

## [Snack Fact of the Day](https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/home-depot-acquired-podcast-stock-returns-cbdf037f)

[**The best performing stock of the past 45 years? It’s** ](https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/home-depot-acquired-podcast-stock-returns-cbdf037f)[<ins>**Home Depot**</ins>](https://robinhood.com/stocks/HD)**, of course.** 

**The Wall Street Journal ran the numbers:**

**“If you had invested $1,000 in Home Depot on the day of its IPO, that $1,000 (with dividends reinvested) would be worth roughly $16 million today—a greater total return than what you could have made from investing in any other stock in the S\&P 500 on any day since.”**

## Thursday

* NY Fed President John Williams due to speak at 4:10 a.m. ET.
* [**BlackBerry**](https://robinhood.com/us/en/stocks/BB/) and [**Darden Restaurants**](https://robinhood.com/stocks/DRI)earnings due out premarket.
* Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin due to deliver remarks at 8 a.m. ET.
* Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack scheduled to speak at 8:50 a.m.
* Philadelphia Fed President Anna Paulson slated to speak at 10:10 a.m. ET.
* [**Costco**](https://robinhood.com/stocks/COST) earnings due out postmarket.

v0.20.5-beta.rc1

nostr

devs

AGORA

Show SN: I've been building open-source Nostr tools. Here is what I have so far.

delirehberi

Welcome to SN, is great to see a growing Turkish community. All these are really useful projects, my preferred one is the photo albums one :)

Stacker Saloon

saloon

Snow judges you.
![](https://m.stacker.news/158804)

bief57

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/5ATAlxcUB0cFOsMDBp3CpOzYFk47k2nFRhvapUYk28I/rs:fit:1280:720/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWFnZXMtd2l4bXAtZWQzMGE4NmI4YzRjYTg4Nzc3MzU5NGMyLndpeG1wLmNvbS9mLzQ1ZTM1ZmViLWRkODUtNGFlYy05ZjhkLTc5YjdmOTU3Mzc3Ni9kZTBhMHFnLTRjNTM0OTE5LWQ1MmUtNGY4MS1hNDk1LTcyNTBmYTFiN2IxYi5naWY_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

0xbitcoiner

Animal_World

siggy47

news

Politics_And_Law

![](https://m.stacker.news/158802)

> Iran’s supreme leader is alive and healthy, the country’s president has claimed. Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public since the start of the war, which has lead to speculation about his health. The supreme leader is understood to have suffered severe injuries to his face and legs in the US-Israeli strikes that killed Ali Khamenei, his father, in February. However, Masoud Pezeshkian has insisted that Mr Khamenei is alive and has held meetings with him in recent months.

Iran’s supreme leader is alive, president insists

satoshiplanet

tech

bitcoin

Coinjoins

Letter from jail of Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez

m0wer

You, or k00b open it when yoga class is over! Hahaha

It's a trigger issue. Wanna file it on GH?

optimism

Daily Stock Discussion ~Stacker_Stocks

bitcoin_beginners

![](https://m.stacker.news/158801)

## Announcements

Welcome to the newsletter.

Have a good week!

Logo design by @plebpoet

Link to last week's newsletter: [Bitcoin Beginners Newsletter #116](https://stacker.news/items/1575939/r/siggy47)

## Top 5 Posts Of The Week

There will be a zap award for the top 5 posts weekly. It will be broken down as follows:

1. 1000 sats
2. 250 sats
3. 250 sats
4. 250 sats
5. 250 sats

I choose the top 5 posts each week based on sats, engagement, and overall quality. The cut off time is 9:00am EST (1300GMT) Friday morning. I will post the top 5 winners shortly after 9:00am every Friday morning.

I reserve the right to not award any sats for the week. I also reserve the right to deny sat awards to bare link posts. I recognize that link posts can be valuable, so I will only exercise discretion for low quality links that garner few sats or engagement from stackers.

1. 🥇 1000 sats — [The Only Way to Make Your Bitcoin Truly Private - Sovereign Sessions Tutorial](https://stacker.news/items/1579283/r/siggy47) by @Kruw
2. 🥈 250 sats — [Help / Wasabi address swap...](https://stacker.news/items/1578776/r/siggy47) by @PictureRoom
3. 🥉 250 sats — [The easiest orangepilling of my life: a waiter, some churros, and one question](https://stacker.news/items/1576791/r/siggy47) by @satoshiplanet
4. 250 sats — [wallet playground - drive hardware wallets on signet in your browser](https://stacker.news/items/1576358/r/siggy47) by @Scoresby
5. 250 sats — [Ready for Merge Ep. 33 with Murch](https://stacker.news/items/1576289/r/siggy47) by @Murch 

**Index**

## Learning Resources

### The White Paper

Everyone knows about the white paper, but have you read it?
[Here](https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf) is the pdf.

### Ecosystem Map

@RadentorForNoxus has created a comprehensive ecosystem map. I believe he intends to keep this list updated. Beginners will benefit from checking it out, as will experienced bitcoiners.

- [Bitcoin Apps Ecosystem 26.03.01](https://stacker.news/items/1445269/r/siggy47) by @R4DENT0R

### Web Sites

- [Jameson Lopp's website](https://www.lopp.net/articles.html) is an incredible resource for people interested in learning about bitcoin at any level. Beginners should go to his [Getting Started With Bitcoin](https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/getting-started.html) page. For those who can do without Lopp's shitcoinery, here is a curated [fork](https://btcmaxis.com/) of the site.

- DarthCoin Guides

DarthCoin Guides provide excellent step by step instruction for those learning about nodes, particular wallets, and just about everything else in the ecosystem.
Here is a link to DarthCoin's Github, where you can find all of DarthCoin's guides:
https://darth-coin.github.io/

- [Why Bitcoin Only](https://whybitcoinonly.com/) This is a massive trove of links, where you can find just about anything you're looking for. It's also fun to browse around.

- [Learn Me A Bitcoin](https://learnmeabitcoin.com/) Greg Walker explains bitcoin in a way that everyone can understand.

- [Get On BTC](https://getonbtc.com/) Five foundational lessons covering money, ownership, getting started, pitfalls to avoid, and FAQs. Includes wallet recommendations and an AI chatbot for questions. Great starting point for true beginners.

- [Opcode Explained](https://opcodeexplained.com/) Documenting bitcoin opcodes, one at a time.

- [Lightning Network Documents](https://lightning.network/docs/) Good complement to the white paper.

### Best Stacker Posts

- DarthCoin Posts

-- [Zeus - Graduated LN wallet, a step by step guide for newbies](https://stacker.news/items/1342392/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Zeus Node - Tips and tricks](https://stacker.news/items/1332473/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Beginner guide: how to use different LN channel types](https://stacker.news/items/1305794/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Zeus embedded node - quick recovery guide](https://stacker.news/items/1283132/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Tips & tricks for mobile nodes users (w/neutrino)](https://stacker.news/items/1232116/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Quick class for LN newbies](https://stacker.news/items/962698/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Why bitcoiners are so "in love" using Tor for their BTC LN nodes?](https://stacker.news/items/944885/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Quick guide for small shops](https://stacker.news/items/904362/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Blixt Wallet - Tips and tricks](https://stacker.news/items/882167/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Bitcoin Historical Phrases by Andreas Antonopoulos](https://stacker.news/items/849714/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [How to create a private Lightning Network](https://stacker.news/items/843264/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Do you need a quick BTC LN node to travel? Here is a trick](https://stacker.news/items/816432/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Zeus updated guide - recovering zombie channels](https://stacker.news/items/794143/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Explain Lightning Network in a simple analogy](https://stacker.news/items/552822/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Choose wisely your LN wallet you want to use](https://stacker.news/items/583496/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [BDMD #1 - Bitcoin was hacked / will be hacked](https://stacker.news/items/589355/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [BDMD #2 - Govs will shut down internet, so Bitcoin is dead](https://stacker.news/items/590397/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [BDMD #3 - Bitcoin is illegal because it is not legal tender](https://stacker.news/items/592553/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Bitcoin Accepted - PoS systems](https://stacker.news/items/600658/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Managing LN wallets liquidity](https://stacker.news/items/679242/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Getting Started with Alby Hub](https://stacker.news/items/701233/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [The best articles debunking Bitcoin FUD](https://stacker.news/items/723899/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [BDMD #4 - Bitcoin is like all other digital currencies, nothing new](https://stacker.news/items/719338/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [SHTF scenario - How to restore a dead LND node?](https://stacker.news/items/728439/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Travel with family and self-custody - use case scenario](https://stacker.news/items/768752/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Zeus quick guide: migrate node to new LN implementations](https://stacker.news/items/1470055/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [How to start using zaps on nostr with Zeus](https://stacker.news/items/1478495/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin 

-- [Bitcoin Beginner Saloon #3](https://stacker.news/items/1479518/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [How to refill your emptied LN channels without Boltz swaps](https://stacker.news/items/1540666/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin

- Top Posts Of All Time

Here you will find a few of the top posts to this territory. I am not going to adhere to a rigid zaprank system, since my purpose is to highlight content that has educational value. I will use an informal combination of zaprank and my own evaluation. For instance, some posts, though of high quality, are solely about Stacker News, and might have more appropriately originated as a meta post.

-- [Explain Lightning Network in a simple analogy](https://stacker.news/items/552822/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin
-- [Bitcoin Mining Industry Introduction](https://stacker.news/items/477320/r/siggy47) by @catoshi
-- [How do you guys use bitcoin to pay for day to day things?](https://stacker.news/items/461137/r/siggy47) by @mateusdeap
-- [UTXO consolidation - What's you best option(s)?](https://stacker.news/items/477157/r/siggy47) by @BitcoinIsTheFuture
-- [The bitcoin beginner's guide to Public Key Encryption](https://stacker.news/items/476074/r/siggy47) by @frostdragon
-- [What If You Need to Relearn Bitcoin from Scratch Again? 🤔](https://stacker.news/items/649524/r/siggy47) by @Natalia

Bitcoin Beginners Newsletter #117

Mine Now, Verify Later: A New Bitcoin Scaling Proposal

ssaurel

Politics And Law Top Posts Of The Week #36

Yeeee-haaa, look at Den grabbing the top spot once more!

denlillaapan

Even opening your link here, the dupes don’t show up either. But if you cut url and then paste it, it checks for dupes! Definitely a bug.

![](https://m.stacker.news/158800)

security

Flock And Other Tech Firms Decline Senate Testimony On Mass Surveillance

> He found that Flock law enforcement accounts - which have access to the data from the cameras - were being sold online by a dark web vendor.

Nostr WoT Extension - Identity, Signer & Lightning Wallet

The docs say Quick Setup creates a custodial wallet, meaning the funds are held by the provider, they don't say who the provider is, or I can't find it.

030e0dca83

They don't feel the need. Both parties feign outrage, but my guess is these hearings are meaningless.