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Bitcoin Magazine U.S. Treasury Cuts Off MEXC From U.S. Financial System Over Alleged $16 Billion in Illicit Flows FinCEN issued a final order under section 9714(a) that will bar U.S. financial institutions from sending or receiving funds w…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Magazine Books Opens 333-Copy Genesis Book Collector Edition for 3rd Anniversary Bitcoin Magazine Books opened a third-anniversary campaign for Aaron van Wirdum's The Genesis Book, capping a hand-signed Collectors

Bitcoin Magazine Thailand SEC Files Criminal Complaint Against Bitget Ahead of Dec. 5 Access Block Thailand's SEC filed a criminal complaint against Bitget operator BG Limited for unlicensed Thai trading from 2022 to 2025. This post Thaila…

Bitcoin Magazine Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Stealing $2.47 Million in Crypto From Investigations Patrick Steven Yaroch, 37, of Ashburn, Virginia, pleaded guilty Thursday to wire fraud and money laundering after using wallet credenti…

Bitcoin Magazine Strive (ASST) Posts $474.8 Million Common Net Income as Bitcoin Yield Hits 63.2% Strive posted $474.8M in Q3 net income to common holders, almost entirely a $533.7M unrealized bitcoin gain, and touted 103.7% year-to-date o…

Bitcoin Magazine Rule to Allow Crypto in 401(k)s Arrives at White House for Final Review A final Labor Department rule that would create a fiduciary safe harbor for private equity, real estate and crypto in 401(k) menus arrived at OIRA on

Bitcoin Magazine Binance Hackers Swap About $50 Million of Stolen XRP Mostly Into Bitcoin, Elliptic Says About 42 million stolen XRP, worth roughly $50 million, has been swapped mostly into bitcoin via THORChain, Elliptic said, lifting con…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Holds Near $75,000 After Hot October Jobs Report Bitcoin price held near $75,800 Friday after U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in October, far above the 59,000 forecast, as December Fed hike odds climbed tow…

Bitcoin Magazine South Korean Crypto Exchange Gopax Suspends Withdrawals and Trading After Hacking Threat South Korea's Gopax halted standard withdrawals at 2:55 p.m. and trading at 3:53 p.m. Friday after a hacking-threat email, and is tra…

Bitcoin Magazine Argentine Bitcoiners Debut “The Genesis of Satoshi Nakamoto” Artwork in Downtown Buenos Aires Bitcoin.ar presented the 2.4-meter stainless steel and glass cube “The Genesis of Satoshi Nakamoto” on October 29 at Polo Dot as…

This week’s newsletter summarizes continued discussion about using TCP hole punching to make nodes behind home routers reachable and describes a draft BIP for standardizing the spending policies that co-signers enforce when emulating covena…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Elias Rohrer, Greg Sanders, Antoine Poinsot, Oleksandr Kurbatov, and Nishant Bansal to discuss Newsletter #429.

This week’s newsletter describes a protocol for creating silent payment transactions from multiparty wallets, summarizes the responsible disclosure of a denial-of-service vulnerability that affected older versions of Core Lightning, and exp…

Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Brandon Black are joined by Adam Gibson, Vincenzo Palazzo, and João Dias to discuss Newsletter #428.

This week’s newsletter describes a design for a single-issuer layer 2 whose users can redeem their bitcoin onchain without the issuer’s cooperation and summarizes a proposal for including hash preimages in output script descriptors. Also in…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Erick Cestari and Adam Gibson to discuss Newsletter #427.

This week’s newsletter summarizes the disclosure of two denial-of-service vulnerabilities in older versions of Eclair and describes a proposed scheme for running complex multi-round contracts inside Lightning channels. Also included are our…

Gustavo Flores Echaiz is joined by Clara Shikhelman and Elias Rohrer to discuss Newsletter #426.

This week’s newsletter links to a draft BIP for letting peers choose their own one-byte message type IDs over the version 2 P2P transport, summarizes a discussion about whether BIPs should include their number in tagged hash tags, and descr…

Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Brandon Black are joined by Matt Morehouse to discuss Newsletter #425.

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…

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…