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Bitcoin Magazine NYSE and Blockchain.com Working Together To List Tokenized Stocks NYSE and other Wall Street giants are increasingly eyeing up Bitcoin and its related tech to debut new products. This post NYSE and Blockchain.com Working

Bitcoin Magazine The Quantum Issue: You Never Really Know The Future From The Quantum Issue: Shinobi considering why it might actually be possible a viable quantum computer is built in the near future. This post The Quantum Issue: You Nev…

Bitcoin Magazine Raiffeisen Bank International to Roll Out Bitcoin Services Across Europe in Expanded Bitpanda Deal The Austrian firm is the latest European bank to roll out crypto trading. This post Raiffeisen Bank International to Roll

Bitcoin Magazine BitGo CEO Mike Belshe: Why Dollar Debasement Fuels the K-Shaped Economy BitGo CEO Mike Belshe breaks down why tokenization is about expanding access, fixing a settlement system built during Wall Street’s 1960s paper crisis…

Bitcoin Magazine BTC Market & Institutional Adoption Forecast with UTXO’s Daniel Hinton Daniel Hinton breaks down why trading in a 24/7 global market with no clearinghouse means Bitcoin truly "plays on hard mode. This post BTC Market & Ins…

Bitcoin Magazine Assessing the Quantum Threat to Bitcoin w/ Shinobi The quantum threat to Bitcoin is no longer purely theoretical, so what would an actual attack look like on chain? This post Assessing the Quantum Threat to Bitcoin w/ Shin…

Bitcoin Magazine Dave Weisberger on Why Bitcoin FOMO Hasn’t Even Started Yet CoinRoutes’ Dave Weisberger explains why ending Bitcoin's 100% bank collateral haircut will be bigger for institutions than ETFs or MSTR. This post Dave Weisberge…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Investors Buy Nearly $1B in BTC ETFs as Bull Market Returns The Bitcoin bulls are back — if ETF flows are to be believed.  U.S. bitcoin exchange-traded funds received $999 million in new investment on Monday, accor…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin’s Bull Run Is Back — and the Data Agrees The Bitcoin price's move above its 365-day average marks the end of bear market, says CryptoQuant. This post Bitcoin’s Bull Run Is Back — and the Data Agrees first appeared…

Bitcoin Magazine White Hats Move Over $4.5 in Bitcoins From Coldcard to Recovery Trust White hats have moved bitcoin from the hacked Coldcard signing devices to a trust for would-be victims to reclaim, Galaxy Digital’s Alex Thorn has said.…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Davidson Souza, Eric Price, and PortlandHODL to discuss Newsletter #423.

In September 2026, Chainalysis confirmed what we all knew when it published a figure that should have been front-page news across every crypto publication. Instances of malware instructions written directly into on-chain transactions and sm…

This week’s newsletter summarizes an analysis of mining pool difficulty controllers stranding slowed miners, describes a proposed improvement to Utreexo’s initial block download, and links to a draft BIP for specifying unspendable taproot i…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Adam Gibson and Rob Segers to discuss Newsletter #422.

The Bugs, the Blackout, and What CLN Node Operators Need to Know 2026 has not been a good year for Blockstream; for fourteen days starting in late August 2026, anyone running a Core Lightning node was asked to operate on trust rather than e…

This week’s newsletter describes a proposed protocol for probabilistic coinjoins disguised as covert bets and summarizes benchmarks of a silent payments indexing server against compact block filters for light clients. Also included are our

Although Nostr came from the Bitcoin community and early support came from Bitcoiners, Nostr has never had a “native” currency. From the beginning, the protocol has treated money the same way it treats everything else: as an event, publishe…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by average_gary, Erick Cestari, Conduition, and Greg Sanders to discuss Newsletter #421.

Liquid Network Follow-Up: 3,400 BTC Returned, But the Math on Recovering the Rest Doesn’t Work. It’s been a wild 24 hours in the Bitcoin space, while the main chain remains unaffected. Tick tick, next block! While Bitcoin’s price hasn’t mov…

On September 6, 2026, Blockstream’s Liquid Network — A Bitcoin federated sidechain — watched roughly 4,000 of the 4,200 BTC in its federation reserve walk out the door in a single, devastating peg-out. At Bitcoin’s price of around $79,750,

When the BLAKE2b hard fork split from Bitcoin, one of its core selling points was democratising mining by abandoning SHA-256d for an algorithm that’s friendlier to CPUs and GPUs; the change promised to sideline the industrial ASIC farms tha…

This week’s newsletter describes an idea for pools to pay miners using silent payments in the coinbase transaction and summarizes the responsible disclosure of a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting older versions of Core Lightning. Al…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Níckolas Goline, Optout, Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, and Moonsettler to discuss Newsletter #420.

If you own Bitcoin, you should be aware of chatter over the last few weeks about “BIP110,” “Blake2b,” and a potential chain that will split away from Bitcoin’s main network with a proof-of-work change and act as a competing network. Opinion…

This week’s newsletter relays advance notice of a planned Core Lightning security release, summarizes a discussion about opt-in replay protection for potential future forks, notes that the Hardware Wallet Interface (HWI) project will enter

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier, Salvatore Ingala, and spacebear to discuss Newsletter #419.

Bitcoin Purity is the latest, and arguably strangest, offshoot of the BIP 110 saga. Where the BLAKE2b hard fork responded to BIP 110’s failed soft fork activation by launching a clean break — new proof-of-work algorithm, new branding, an op…

On August 17, 2026, Swiss hardware wallet maker BitBox disclosed and patched two “severe” vulnerabilities in its BitBox02 and BitBox02 Nova devices, alongside a previously flagged bootloader issue. It’s the second major hardware wallet secu…

When a blockchain network like Bitcoin splits into two chains through a hard fork, the two incompatible networks face a critical engineering question that determines whether the split is orderly or a genuine mess for users. Does the new cha…

This week’s newsletter summarizes the disclosure of a fixed reorg vulnerability in LND’s channel closes and describes a draft BIP for the rawtr() output script descriptor. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to

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…