Welcome to the October 2026 issue of the Bitcoin Wilderness monthly summary — the briefs, the macro and the practical, in one place.
The daily desk
The Bitcoin Brief for 30 October closed the month, and the series ran every market day through October — short, sourced, no hype. If you read one thing a day, that is the one.
Your salary is the story
The month’s sharpest piece was on inflation being pushed back to 3% on purpose, with your salary as the thing that gets squeezed. Price targets are a policy choice; the wage side is where it lands.
Who is actually buying
Institutional behaviour got clearer: SA family offices now treat bitcoin as a treasury question, not a trade. That is a very different conversation from price targets.
Look after your keys
On the practical side, how to back up and store a seed phrase safely — the article to read before, not after, something goes wrong.
— The Bitcoin Wilderness team