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Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Collapses to $59,000 — and the Worst May Not Be Over Bitcoin price has plunged below $60,000 after a perfect storm of ETF outflows, hawkish Fed signals, geopolitical inflation fears and shaken market confiden…

Bitcoin Magazine Strategy (MSTR) Stock Craters 10%, Hits Two-Year Low as Bitcoin Crashes Below $60K, CryptoQuant Warns Company to Stop Buying Strategy (MSTR) plunged more than 10% to a two-year low near $92 as Bitcoin crashed below $60,000…

Bitcoin Magazine The 2036 Issue: Here Come The Sovereigns From The 2036 Issue: A look at coming impact of sovereign nations on Bitcoin mining, by Jacob Langenkamp, Fellow at BPI. This post The 2036 Issue: Here Come The Sovereigns first ap…

Bitcoin Magazine Law Enforcement, Catholic Groups Send Letters to U.S. Government Warning CLARITY Act Would Create Crypto Crime Loopholes Law enforcement groups and Catholic leaders warned that the CLARITY Act’s Section 604 could create re…

Bitcoin Magazine Strategy (MSTR) Stock Falls Below $100 for First Time Since March 2024 Strategy (MSTR) shares fell below $100 for the first time since March 2024 as Bitcoin's drop to around $61,000 left the company sitting on more than $1…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Crashes Toward $61,000 as Bloodbath Engulfs Crypto Stocks Bitcoin price has fallen to around $61,500—down more than 50% from its October 2025 peak—dragging crypto-related stocks even lower in the broader mark…

Bitcoin Magazine Strive (ASST) CEO Says Company Is Buying Bitcoin ‘Hand Over Fist’ as Treasury Hits 19,864 BTC Strive CEO Matt Cole said the company is buying Bitcoin “hand over fist” during the market downturn, with its treasury reaching

Bitcoin Magazine BlackRock Tells Investors to Put Bitcoin in Their Portfolios BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, recommends a 1–2% Bitcoin allocation in diversified portfolios, arguing it can enhance returns while maintaining ma…

Bitcoin Magazine Congress Schedules CLARITY Act Hearing for July 17 in New York Congress has scheduled a July 17 hearing in New York on the CLARITY Act as momentum builds for the crypto market structure bill. This post Congress Schedules C…

Bitcoin Magazine Craig Raw Built One of Bitcoin’s Best Wallets for Free. Apple Might Kill It by June 30. Apple may terminate Sparrow Wallet creator Craig Raw's developer account on June 30 after he submitted a warning app to combat fake Sp…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by rkrux, Roland Bewick, and Steven Roose to discuss Newsletter #410.

This week’s newsletter summarizes a discussion about wallets removing opt-in replace-by-fee signaling from the transactions they create. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software and no…

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…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Vasil Dimov to discuss Newsletter #409.

This week’s newsletter describes a draft BIP to replace the testnet4 test network with a successor. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infr…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Pyth and Daniel Roberts (Ademan) to discuss Newsletter #408.

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…

This week’s newsletter summarizes ideas to make BIP324 transport encryption quantum secure and describes a proposal to standardize QR-based signing payloads for miniscript wallets. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposal…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Chandra Pratap to discuss Newsletter #407.

This week’s newsletter announces the responsible disclosure of a vulnerability that allowed a remote peer to crash Core Lightning nodes and links to transcripts from a recent Bitcoin Core developer meeting. Also included are our regular sec…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Oliver Gugger and 0xB10C to discuss Newsletter #406.

This week’s newsletter links to a discussion of updates to BIP322’s generic signed message format and describes an idea to use TCP hole punching to help Bitcoin nodes behind NATs accept inbound connections. Also included are our regular sec…

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…

On April 18, 2026, Parasite Pool achieved something remarkable and now forms part of Bitcoin history and it’s expanding lore. The little mining pool that could has mined its second Bitcoin block in just 14 months of operation. That block, #…

In mid-April 2026, a well-crafted scam launched a fake Ledger Live application that made its way onto Apple’s Mac App Store, bypassing the company’s vaunted review process and resulting in nearly $9.5 million in losses from over 50 victims.…

There has been a lot of chatter surrounding Bitcoin’s longevity as a network, as research on quantum computers gains traction, with some claims circulating that a viable device is less than a decade away, which, if true, will have massive i…

According to CoinDance, there are 23,000+ public Bitcoin nodes, all running with a full or pruned copy of the Bitcoin blockchain and working each day to validate transactions and broadcast transactions. Some nodes, deemed “economic nodes,”

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…

In my book Broken Money, I wrote about the past, present, and future of money through the lens of technology. And importantly, I put a lot of focus on connecting some of those technological or quantitative elements to the human impact that