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Bitcoin Magazine What does Bitcoin “Power Projection” mean to the U.S. Military?  “INDOPACOM Commander Admiral Samuel Paparo told Congress the U.S. military is operating a live Bitcoin node and views the protocol as a ‘valuable computer sc…

This week’s newsletter describes possible solutions to node fingerprinting and links to discussion of using public fraud proofs to improve incentives around just-in-time channels. Also included are our regular sections describing notable ch…

Bitcoin Magazine ANTPOOL, Block Inc, F2Pool, Foundry, Spiderpool, MARA Foundation & DMND Join Stratum v2 Working Group Stratum v2 Working Group announces new cohort of members, including ANTPOOL, Foundry, and others. This post ANTPOOL, Bl…

Bitcoin Magazine Why eBay Should Ignore GameStop and Use Bitcoin to Save $1.2 Billion in Transaction Costs Why eBay should reject GameStop and launch Bitcoin payments: A $1.2B annual opportunity cost that returns massive fee savings direct…

Bitcoin Magazine Boltz Launches Non-Custodial USDC Swaps, Bridging Bitcoin Directly to Circle’s Regulated Dollar Boltz today enabled trustless Bitcoin-to-USDC swaps using Circle’s CCTP, allowing instant movement between Bitcoin layers incl…

Bitcoin Magazine Strategy Opens Door to Bold Bitcoin Sales Pivot Unlocking $2.2 Billion Tax Benefit Strategy just opened the door to tactical Bitcoin sales in a major treasury pivot. Executives signaled they will consider selling BTC to op…

Bitcoin Magazine Sequans Sells Half Its Bitcoin Holdings as Revenue Falls and Losses Mount Sequans Communications sold 1,025 bitcoin during the first quarter of 2026, cutting its digital asset reserves nearly in half. This post Sequans Sel…

Bitcoin Magazine Kraken Partners With MoneyGram to Enable Crypto Cash-Outs at 500,000 Locations Worldwide Kraken will let users convert crypto into cash at MoneyGram locations across more than 100 countries, expanding access between digita…

Bitcoin Magazine K Wave Abandons Bitcoin Treasury Plan, Shifts to AI Infrastructure Play with $485M War Chest Nasdaq-listed K Wave Media is abandoning its high‑profile bitcoin treasury plan and recasting itself as an AI infrastructure comp…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Rockets Past $81,000 for the First Time Since January Bitcoin price surged above $81,000 for the first time since January 2026. This post Bitcoin Price Rockets Past $81,000 for the First Time Since January fi…

Bitcoin Magazine Coinbase Cuts 14% of Workforce, Signals AI-Driven Future Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong took to Twitter to announce that Coinbase will cut 14% of its workforce as part of a shift toward an AI-driven operating model. This pos…

Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Brandon Black are joined by Olaoluwa Osuntokun to discuss Newsletter #403.

This week’s newsletter describes research around using binary fuse filters as an alternative to the GCS used in compact block filters. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposals and discussion about changing Bitcoin’s cons…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Toby Sharp to discuss Newsletter #402.

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…

This week’s newsletter describes Hornet Node’s work on a declarative executable specification of consensus rules and summarizes a discussion about onion message jamming in the Lightning Network. Also included are our regular sections with s…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Remix7531 and Luis Schwab to discuss Newsletter #401.

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, #…

This week’s newsletter describes an idea for nested MuSig2 Lightning nodes and summarizes a project formally verifying secp256k1’s modular scalar multiplication. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services a…

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.…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Julian Moik to discuss Newsletter #400.

This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.

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…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Armin Sabouri, Pyth, Conduition, and Jonas Nick to discuss Newsletter #399.

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,”

Bitcoin mining has had some rather dramatic twists over the past decade. Mining started out as a CPU and later GPU-powered niche community, and has transformed into a multibillion-dollar industrial sector, characterised by extreme political…

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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…

The tech industry has a predictable pattern: Every few years, a “revolutionary concept” emerges that promises to fundamentally transform how we organise human activity, eliminate inefficiency, and democratise opportunity, but it turns out t…

The internet is filled with scams that arrive via email, text message, or social media, and we’ve become desensitised to them, despite monthly news stories and reports on the subject. Billions have been stolen in the Bitcoin and adjacent cr…

On the evening of February 6, 2026, a Bithumb employee made what can only be described as the most expensive typo in cryptocurrency history. During a promotional “Random Box” event meant to distribute small cash rewards of 2,000 Korean won

Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) is one of the most elegant solutions to a persistent problem in Bitcoin’s Lightning Network ecosystem: how to seamlessly integrate payments into applications without requiring users to trust each app with custody

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