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Bitcoin Magazine Coldcard Bitcoin Hack: Victims Report Median Loss of 1 BTC as Theft Tops $111 Million The amount of Bitcoin stolen has been confirmed at $111 million, but is likely much higher — and could stand at over $130 million. This…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Shrugs off Coldcard Hack and Clarity Act Delays, Price Chops Higher as Investors Buy ETFs The Bitcoin price seems unfazed by recent negative news. This post Bitcoin Shrugs off Coldcard Hack and Clarity Act Delays,…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin ETFs Add Nearly $800 Million in the Wake of Coldcard Exploit One of the biggest Bitcoin security stories of the year unfolded last week as a firmware exploit affecting certain Coldcard hardware wallets renewed indu…

Bitcoin Magazine Crucial Vote On Crypto Clarity Act Delayed Until September, Trump Says More People Are Paying in Bitcoin: Reports A vote on the long-awaited Clarity Act will be delayed until September as lawmakers go on recess today.  As

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin’s BIP110 Moment: Three Possible Scenarios Will BIP110 fail, activate, or split Bitcoin? A look at the three most likely outcomes. This post Bitcoin’s BIP110 Moment: Three Possible Scenarios first appeared on Bitcoi…

This week’s newsletter describes a draft BIP for relaying stale block tips between peers. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposals and discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and rele…

Bitcoin Magazine “We Need Clarity,” Says Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo The ex-New York governor hinted that Democrats were playing politics with the Clarity Act. This post “We Need Clarity,” Says Former New York Governor Andrew Cu…

Bitcoin Magazine Breez Announces Glow, an Open Source Bitcoin to Stablecoins Progressive Web App Breez’s new open-source Glow PWA turns Bitcoin into everyday money. Users send stablecoins from their BTC balance via Spark, log in with Passk…

Bitcoin Magazine Senate Whip Barrasso Becomes Latest Lawmaker to Support Crypto Clarity Act, But Time May Be Running Out  While Republicans are urging lawmakers to get the bill over the line, there isn't much time left before the Senate go…

Bitcoin Magazine The End of the Closed-Source Era Is at Hand: Obscurity Was Never Security The Coldcard hack is a preview. When machines can read what humans couldn't (or just didn't), closed source stops being a category. This post The En…

Bitcoin Magazine Breez Drops New Bitcoin App Which Doubles As Wallet and Developer Toolkit The app, Glow, allows developers to see what's working under the hood with the Lightning wallet so they can build their own products. This post Bre…

RGB Protocol on Bitcoin (v0.11.1) is an open-source protocol for issuing and transferring digital assets directly on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, without any change to Bitcoin’s base layer. It is not a third layer stacked on top of Li…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Rob Hamilton, PortlandHODL, Chandra Pratap, and fabohax to discuss Newsletter #416.

A Bleak Day for Self-Custody — And What You Need to Do Right Now For years, the Bitcoin community’s answer to every custody question has been the same: get a hardware wallet, generate your seed offline, never expose your keys to an internet…

This week’s newsletter warns about a severe vulnerability affecting wallets generated by COLDCARD signing devices, summarizes the disclosure of two denial-of-service vulnerabilities in Core Lightning, and describes a proof of concept for a

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Fabian Jahr, Kruw, and Mojo to discuss Newsletter #415.

This week’s newsletter describes a draft BIP for full aggregation of BIP340 signatures. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and su…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Keagan McClelland and Andrew Toth to discuss Newsletter #414.

This week’s newsletter describes a new project to apply formal verification to the Bitcoin protocol. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin in…

July 15, 2026 The rest of the team at Ego Death Capital and I have partnered with Adrian Steckel and Ruben Zweiban to launch ORANGE JUICE. It’s a company that acquires, improves, and permanently holds cash-flowing businesses, backed by a bi…

Bitcoin treasury companies have become one of the strangest corners of public markets. What started as Michael Saylor’s straightforward thesis — store retained earnings and sweep free cash flows into Bitcoin later expanded to issue debt and…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sjors Provoost to discuss Newsletter #413.

This week’s newsletter describes research into using fountain codes to allow pruned nodes to contribute to initial block download. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable…

It’s been well over a decade since Tether’s flagship stablecoin was born on Bitcoin; few remember its launch, as most were introduced to it it on an altcoin chain like Ethereum and TRON, but back in 2014, USDT launched on the Omni Layer, a

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Conduition and Jeremy Rubin to discuss Newsletter #412.

It seems like a long time ago now, but on August 11, 2020, Bitcoin became a treasury reserve asset for the first publicly traded company in the US. Very few, if any, of us knew who MSTR or Saylor was at the time, but nevertheless, the compa…

On June 1, 2026, Liquid Network successfully activated ELIP-203, a coordinated hard fork that removes a constraint from the Bitcoin sidechain that was part of its legacy launch, and is a sign that the chain is looking to expand its reach be…

A1 Lab—a division of JAN3—recently launched Agentic AQUA, taking another step in merging the Bitcoin economy with artificial intelligence and its growing infrastructure and impact on global markets. Leveraging Agentic AQUA autonomous AI age…

Blockstream announced the latest addition to its Jade range of signing devices: Jade Core, a new hardware wallet designed to lower the barrier even further and push more users towards Bitcoin self-custody. Unlike previous hardware wallet re…

In August 2026, Bitcoin will undergo a fork with a new chain emerging if Paul Sztorc and Layer 2 Labs follow through with their plans. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a fork following the Bitcoin Cash split from the network in 2017 (alon…

It wasn’t that long ago, during the strategic Bitcoin reserve hype, that the South African Reserve Bank saw the asset as mampara money, and compared its importance to holding a reserve of boerwors. South Africans were free to purchase magic…

My new sci fi thriller, The Stolguard Incident, is now available! It can be purchased in print, ebook, or audio versions on Amazon here. You can also find the print version on Barnes & Noble here, or you may be able to ask your local bookst…

Banks work in ways that are unintuitive for a lot of people. And yet, understanding the banking system as a whole is really helpful for investing, because having a grasp of how the banking system is functioning helps you determine whether y…

December 2025 For many years now, I’ve been bullish on bitcoin, and continue to be, but have not extended that view toward any other cryptocurrency. That decision continues to hold up well. Since I first recommended it in April 2020, it has…

Originally published: July 2025 During the past year or so, the Bitcoin ecosystem has largely been led by the rise of corporate bitcoin treasury strategies. Although Strategy (MSTR) pioneered the trend back in 2020, the follow-on adoption b…

My Twitter/X account was compromised from February 26th to March 3rd, but I confirm that I’ve regained control of it now. Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen. Fortunately, I still had access to Nostr during that time (e.g. prima…

This research piece on fiscal dominance in the United States was compiled and written by Sam Callahan, and commissioned and advised by Lyn Alden. Published: January 2025 Executive Summary • Structural fiscal deficits have surpassed private

This research piece on the correlation between measures of liquidity and the price of Bitcoin was compiled and written by Sam Callahan, and commissioned and advised by Lyn Alden. Published: September 2024 Executive Summary Bitcoin moves in

Published: August 2024 In the modern era of corporate finance, the balance sheet of a corporation has trended toward being less important relative to the income statement. Back during Benjamin Graham’s quintessential value investing days, h…

Published: July 2024 It would be powerful if you could bring your digital identity, content, and followers from one social ecosystem, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, or Substack, to another. Imagine if you could publish content and se…