Bitcoin continues to pull back toward $76k, with the market waiting for tonight’s US CPI print. The threat quantum computing poses to Bitcoin — a sword that has hung overhead for a long time — has seen some fresh movement. ...
Bitcoin has been pulling back lately, with macro headwinds pushing it down to around $77k. A few days ago, something quietly unsettling happened on Liquid — Bitcoin’s federated sidechain. ...
A fascinating and wildly imaginative project has appeared recently: tapeout.net. Put simply, it lets users create their own integrated circuit on-chain. From Transistors to CPUs Before getting into the project, some background on logic circuits is in order. Strip the casing off any chip product we use today and keep decomposing it, layer by layer, and you will find that it is ultimately built from one most basic component. That component is the transistor. ...
TL;DR BIP-110 sought to raise the cost of writing large volumes of contiguous data — Ordinals inscriptions and the like — through a temporary consensus restriction. In the voluntary early-lock-in phase, the proposal drew signals from only 51 blocks — 2.53% support — far below the 55% threshold. Once the mandatory signaling period began, the minority chain formed by supporters produced just two blocks before stalling; BIP-110 is effectively dead as a network-wide consensus upgrade. The debate over on-chain data, protocol neutrality, and development governance will continue; and because the forked chain lacks replay protection, ordinary holders should not rush to move or trade related assets. In the early hours of August 9, Beijing time, Bitcoin reached block height 961,632 and BIP-110 entered its mandatory signaling period. Nodes running BIP-110 rules began rejecting blocks without version bit 4 set, splitting off from the mainnet. Thereafter, the BIP-110 branch produced only two blocks before stalling, while the mainnet kept producing normally. Over the preceding difficulty-adjustment period, only 51 blocks had signaled support — 2.53% — far below the proposal’s 55% voluntary early-lock-in threshold. BIP-110 thus never won broad miner support, and ultimately formed a minority chain with negligible hashpower. ...
BTC has been climbing and now sits near $65k. The weekend’s market was calm. But this weekend in the Bitcoin community was destined to be anything but peaceful. ...
A recently unsealed criminal complaint from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has once again ripped the fig leaf off American law enforcement. Patrick Steven Yaroch, a former FBI supervisory special agent, is accused of using his position to siphon nearly $1 million in crypto from cryptocurrency accounts linked to a “hostile nation” (reportedly Russia) that the FBI was monitoring — moving the funds into his own wallet, and even parking part of it in DeFi protocols to earn yield[1]. ...
Overnight, the apps of 29 overseas crypto exchanges vanished from Google Play in South Korea. This was no technical glitch — it was a surgical strike by Korean regulators. On July 24, 2026, South Korea’s crypto community erupted. Search Google Play for OKX, Bybit, MEXC, KuCoin, Gemini, or BitMEX — all gone. The trigger was a long-gestating action by the Korea Financial Intelligence Unit (KoFIU): every overseas exchange app that has not completed Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) registration with the KoFIU is to be removed from Google Play[1]. ...
Today is January 3, 2024, the 15th birthday of Bitcoin. Let’s first wish Bitcoin a happy 15th birthday! The conventional narrative in the media goes like this: 15 years ago, on January 3, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto launched Bitcoin on a server in Helsinki, Finland. However, according to NickYam’s investigation, the actual truth is more likely that Satoshi Nakamoto received The Times newspaper from January 3 to 9 of that year, conducted a trial run for a few days, and officially launched Bitcoin on the 9th. ...
Introduction Whenever the topic of the value of BTC (Bitcoin) is discussed, people often find themselves in endless debates. Even with the use of the three treasures - left-hand Austrian, right-hand Marxian - and reciting Keynes, it seems that the problem remains unresolved. Some say BTC is worthless garbage. Some say BTC has no intrinsic value but has a price. Some say BTC has value because it is scarce. ...
The stock guru Warren Buffett has always been known for his staunch anti-cryptocurrency stance. In 2019, the Oracle of Omaha said on a television interview, “All cryptocurrencies will eventually come to a bad ending.” In 2021, Warren Buffett’s partner, Charlie Munger, publicly criticized Bitcoin during a shareholders’ meeting, calling it “disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization.” Warren Buffett himself has also publicly referred to Bitcoin as “rat poison” in the past. ...