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Continuano gli hack, i data leak e le cessazioni di servizio. Questa settimana è il turno di Revolut, Brevo (che trascina cion sè Trezor e BitBox), e torniamo a parlare di Liquid.Inoltre: la nuova versione di GridlessOS integra i datacenter AI con i miner bitcoin e le banche si attrezzano per la custodia di Bitcoin.It's Showtime!

Most of the Bitcoin came back. The trust problem didn't. This week on Canadian Bitcoiners, Joey and Len unpack Liquid's recovery dispute, Blockstream's refusal to pay the attacker, and the question still hanging over the missing reserve: who covers the rest?Then, a fake Trezor security alert sent through a compromised email provider puts the spotlight on the companies surrounding self-custody. Trezor says its wallet and product systems were not affected. We also dig into Hunter Biden's LAPTOP memecoin crash, Canada's treatment of tokenized bank deposits, and the gap between a token's quoted price and the money actually available to exit.On the Canadian side: Carney and Zelenskyy's 100-year partnership declaration, the Ontario Science Centre layoffs, and the week's questions about public spending and institutional accountability. From Bitcoin reserves to political promises, what are we being asked to trust—and who bears the cost when it fails?Which story deserves the most scrutiny: Liquid's recovery, the Trezor phishing incident, or Canada's century-long commitment?Canadian Bitcoiners PodcastWebsite: https://canadianbitcoiners.comSubscribe and turn on notifications — new episodes live Monday nights.READ MORETrezor's Brevo disclosure:https://trezor.io/blog/news/security-incident-at-brevo-our-third-party-email-providerLiquid recovery and ransom dispute:https://www.theblock.co/news/ecosystems/2026-09-11-return-the-bitcoin-blockstream-refuses-ransom-demand-for-remaining-600-btc-from-liquid-exploit-414247Canada–Ukraine declaration:https://www.international.gc.ca/country_news-pays_nouvelles/2026-09-10-canada-ukraine.aspx?lang=engOSFI statement on tokenized deposits:https://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/en/news/statement-tokenized-other-digitally-represented-deposits————————————————————————————————SPONSORS

In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: The CEOs of multiple leading AI companies say the industry needs to slow down. We break down the major AI news story that broke over the weekend. Why a Fed rate hike now looks all but certain, and the tiny inflation number that sealed it Trump's $5,000 promise to every adult American. Who would actually pay for it? Metaplanet gives up $220 million to calm a shareholder revolt. Is it enough? Blockstream to the Liquid hackers: "It is theft." The 600 bitcoin standoff ---- Borrow against your Bitcoin without selling it. Ledn offers Bitcoin-backed loans built for serious holders, with rates that get lower as your loan size increases. With Ledn's custodied loan product, your Bitcoin is held in custody and not lent out. Ledn has operated through multiple market cycles without a loss of client assets and publishes Proof of Reserves so you can verify what they hold. Get 0.25% off your first loan at ledn.io/natalie. Terms apply — see the site for details. ---- Order my approachable introduction to Bitcoin book "Bitcoin is for Everyone: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1804091138?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzameri07b-20&creativeASIN=1804091138&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.3Q6CKLCXBKGSV&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_mixed_d_asin  Limited signed copies are available for purchase at shop.talkingbitcoin.com powered by Speed Wallet.  ---- Read every story in the News Block with visuals and charts! Join our mailing list and subscribe to our free Bitcoin newsletter: https://thenewsblock.substack.com ---- Upcoming Events: The best time to plan for Bitcoin 2027 is right now. Early bird tickets are live — grab the lowest pricing available and use code HODL for 10% off: https://tickets.b.tc/event/bitcoin-2027?promoCodeTask=apply&promoCodeInput=HODL  ---- Disclaimer: The News Block and Coin Stories are for educational and entertainment purposes only and do not constitute financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. Natalie Brunell is not a financial advisor. Some content may include sponsorships or paid partnerships, which are disclosed. Always do your own research and consult a licensed professional before making financial decisions. Bitcoin and digital assets are volatile — never invest more than you can afford to lose.

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q.AOBMax: spent a full day and roughly $100 in API credits on a marketing project using lower-end models rather than his normal Claude subscription -- couldn't use it due to privacy concerns around Ungovernable content; a warning that frontier model quality costs real money per tokenQ: quiet weekend -- kids party Saturday, christening Sunday; off to Portugal on FridayNEWSRevolut hands passports and Bitcoin histories to a spoofed government request: attackers used a real government agency's email domain to extract passport scans, verification selfies, home addresses, and full transaction histories including Bitcoin activity; Revolut refuses to confirm the number of affected customers, the market, or the agency involved; attacker is now leaking customer files daily on Telegram and demanding 10,000 BTC -- CoinDesk, TechCrunch, DecryptLiquid exploit recovery: 3,400 BTC returned to block 965950 on September 7 via on-chain OP_RETURN negotiation; ~598.5 BTC (~$47M) remains with the exploiters; Blockstream refused the demanded 10% bounty, called it theft, and says it will work with law enforcement; block production resumed September 10 but peg operations remain suspended -- Bitcoin Magazine, news.bitcoin.com, CoinDesk, The Bitcoin ManualFinal CLARITY Act text drops: ethics deal done, developer protections narrowed; the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act now covers civil enforcement only with criminal protections removed -- including the charge brought against the Samourai developers; cloture vote is September 15 at 2:15pm ET, needs 60 votes; prediction markets put passage at ~25% -- The Crypto Times, The Block, The Hill, CoinDeskChinese quantum benchmark drops secp256k1 attack to 835 logical qubits, down 60% from the 2020 estimate of 2,124; current best hardware reaches 94 logical qubits; addresses with exposed public keys face the greatest future risk -- TFTC, CoinDeskAlby Hub authentication bypass lets attackers drain Lightning wallets: critical flaw in v1.7.0 through v1.18.5 allows unauthenticated remote takeover when port 8080 is internet-accessible; at least one user confirmed compromised; update to v1.24.0 and block external access to port 8080 -- The Hacker NewsBrevo breach lets attackers send phishing from Trezor, BitBox, and CoinTracking domains: attackers created API keys inside Brevo customer accounts allowing emails from real sending domains that passed SPF, DKIM, and DMARC; the lure was a fake STM32 Entropy Vulnerability alert targeting hardware wallet owners; Trezor and BitBox both confirmed the breach on September 9 -- CryptoTimes, DecryptRELEASESHighlightsElectrs v0.12.0 -- 2026-09-13Switches to the bindex indexing library. Requires Bitcoin Core 31 or later and a full reindex -- upgrade Core first and plan for downtime, especially on lower-powered hardware.Fedimint v0.12.1 -- 2026-09-12Security release fixing a vulnerability in the Lightning gateway's LNv1 payment handling. Gateway operators should upgrade immediately. The fix is consensus-neutral so federation participants and wallet users do not need to coordinate an upgrade.Radar v1.0.7 -- 2026-09-12Adds BOLT11 invoice payments alongside lightning addresses, scan-to-pay from the send screen, on-chain receive via bitcoin: URI, full balance hiding across the app, and Signal backup migration on a single device.Bitcoin Seed Tool v2.4.0 -- 2026-09-11Adds SeedQR scanning, Seed XOR splitting into 2-8 Coldcard-compatible shares, NIP-06 Nostr key derivation, BIP-44/49/84/86 descriptor export, and blank backup template printing. Also fixes seed leakage bugs -- existing users should update before use.Phoenix v2.8.2 -- 2026-09-08 (Android), 2026-09-07 (iOS)Adds Italian, Japanese, Polish, Ukrainian, and Korean language support. Android users can now manually set feerates on outgoing on-chain transactions, matching iOS parity.BTCPay Server v2.4.4 -- 2026-09-08Breaking-change release: NFC payments disabled by default at checkout, zero-amount invoices blocked by default, and Boltcard desktop setup removed in favour of the dedicated Boltcard app. Review the breaking changes before upgrading.Ashigaru Desktop v1.4.5 -- 2026-09-07Major catch-up release. Fixes broken HTTPS connectivity in earlier builds (missing crypto modules broke all outbound connections). Adds in-app update checking with signature verification, a guided tour, dice-based passphrases, and stronger Dojo node verification. Existing users on older versions must download manually.Flint v1.1.0 -- 2026-09-07Updates compatibility to BTCPay Server 2.4.4 and enforces Breez SDK Spark release gating. Upgrade alongside BTCPay 2.4.4. All artifacts signed with Sigstore build provenance.Everything elseAmethyst v1.15.2 -- 2026-09-12BasicSwap DEX v0.18.8 -- 2026-09-13BasicSwap DEX v0.18.7 -- 2026-09-10BDK FFI v3.1.0 -- 2026-09-12Citrine v3.1.1 -- 2026-09-10Core Lightning v26.06.7 -- 2026-09-11Fedimint v0.11.3 -- 2026-09-12JoinMarket-NG v0.39.2 -- 2026-09-12LDK v0.2.6 -- 2026-09-10LNbits v1.6.1 -- 2026-09-09ngit-cli v3.0.0 -- 2026-09-08Ride The Lightning v0.15.12 -- 2026-09-09RoboSats v0.8.7-alpha -- 2026-09-10Tor Browser 15.0.22 -- 2026-09-10Trezor Suite 26.9.1 -- 2026-09-11TO DONATE TO ROMAN'S DEFENSE FUND: https://freeromanstorm.com/donateHELP GET SAMOURAI A PARDONSIGN THE PETITION ----> https://www.change.org/p/stand-up-for-freedom-pardon-the-innocent-coders-jailed-for-building-privacy-tools DONATE TO THE FAMILIES w/ USD ----> https://www.givesendgo.com/billandkeonneDONATE TO THE FAMILIES w/ BTC ----> https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_JpxtkLv95T SUPPORT ON SOCIAL MEDIA ---> https://billandkeonne.org/VALUE FOR VALUEThanks for listening you Ungovernable Misfits, we appreciate your continued support and hope you enjoy the shows.You can support this episode using your time, talent or treasure.TIME:- create fountain clips for the show- create a meetup- help boost the signal on social mediaTALENT:- create ungovernable misfit inspired art, animation or music- design or implement some software that can make the podcast better- use whatever talents you have to make a contribution to the show!TREASURE:- BOOST IT OR STREAM SATS on the Podcasting 2.0 apps @ https://podcastapps.com- DONATE via Monero @ https://xmrchat.com/ungovernable- BUY SOME STICKERS @ https://ungovernable.network/shop/FOUNDATIONhttps://foundation.xyz/ungovernableFoundation builds Bitcoin-centric tools that empower you to reclaim your digital sovereignty.As a sovereign computing company, Foundation is the antithesis of today's tech conglomerates. 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Matt and Nic are back for more deals and news. In this episode:  We bring back his the theme music Anthropic employees think there's a 10% chance AI destroys humanity Was Jacob Coxon astroturfed or real? Are Anthropic employees being sincere or cynical? Blockstream's Liquid sidechain is hacked What does the Liquid hack mean for privacy coins? Hunter Biden launches the $LAPTOP memecoin IONQ says they will be able to crack ECC in two years Ex Silvergate CEO Alan Lane speaks out OpenAI offers a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem  Can insider information leak through AI models?  Why AI doom is like Pascal's mugging Content mentioned: Alan Lane, Silvergate's Voluntary Liquidation

Alex Thorn and Jon join Kain and Taylor to unpack a Bitcoin hack, two new frontier models, and why nobody trusts their AI chats anymore. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsors! Visit 1inch to swap tokenized securities, crypto and more. Simple. Secure. Self-custodial. Whatever asset you're buying - swap it at ⁠⁠⁠http://unchainedcrypto.com/go/1inch-sn⁠⁠⁠ ======================================================== A Bitcoin sidechain lost $300 million to a consensus bug this week, and the hackers who returned 85% of it are trying to extort a "bug bounty" out of Blockstream for the rest. Alex Thorn, Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy, and Jon, Head of Strategy at Venice and co-founder of ShapeShift, join Kain Warwick and Taylor Monahan to unpack how AI models are now finding exploits faster than the humans who wrote the code, and to push back on the idea that returning stolen funds makes anyone a white hat. They also dig into Astra and Fable 5.1, two frontier models that landed days after a mathematician working inside OpenAI's Codex clashed publicly with OpenAI over who actually solved a Millennium Prize-adjacent proof.  Jon and Alex explain why the "don't train on my data" toggle may not mean much, and why identity is becoming the real privacy battleground. The conversation closes on whether an Anthropic researcher quitting this week is a warning the industry is choosing to ignore. Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Kain Warwick⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Host of Uneasy Money and Founder of Infinex and Synthetix ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Taylor Monahan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Co-host of Uneasy Money and Security Expert Guests: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Alex Thorn - Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jon - Head of Strategy at Venice and Co-founder of ShapeShift Timestamps

La nuova normalità degli hack con AI ci consegna un nuovo caso clamoroso. Il liquid network crolla e viene svuotato di ben 500 bitcoin. Tutti i dettagli nel nostro nuovo episodio.Inoltre: il post mortem del BIP110, il caso di debancarizzazione del collettivo Autistici/Inventati, e nuove informazioni sui data leak di Trezor e Pocket.It's Showtime!

De bitcoinkoers staat op 78.000 dollar, en dat is al een paar weken zo. Saai, maar ook positief: halverwege augustus sprong bitcoin plots van 60.000 naar rond de 80.000 dollar, en sindsdien lijkt de markt aan dat niveau gewend te zijn geraakt. Op de cryptomarkt geldt dat als het fundament voor verdere stijging. Eén grote uitschieter op de rest van de markt: privacycoin Zcash steeg deze week met ruim 50 procent en is nu meer dan 1.200 dollar waard. Half augustus stond de koers nog rond de 500 dollar. Privacy is dit jaar weer een populair thema, en de nieuwe Zcash ETF, een beursgenoteerd beleggingsproduct, gaf het laatste zetje. Het grootste nieuws van de week kwam van Liquid, een tweede laag bovenop bitcoin die vooral door exchanges wordt gebruikt om onderling soepel transacties af te handelen. Via een nieuw geïntroduceerde kwetsbaarheid werd de reserve van 4.000 bitcoin weggeplukt, goed voor 270 miljoen euro. De aanvallers lieten een bericht achter op de blockchain: 'We are white hats, contact us on chain'. Goedaardige hackers dus, die het geld wilden teruggeven. Dat gebeurde maar deels. Het gesprek tussen de hackers en Blockstream, eigenaar van Liquid, speelde zich af op de blockchain en was voor iedereen te volgen. De hackers wilden pas terugbetalen als de bug in de nieuwste software was opgelost. Ruim 24 uur na de aanval kwam 3.400 bitcoin terug, bijna 600 bitcoin bleef in de wallet van de hacker staan, zo'n 40 miljoen euro. Daarna volgde alleen nog een verdrietige smiley. Of dat een afgesproken vergoeding was, weet niemand. En dan Hunter Biden, die woensdag zijn eigen memecoin LAPTOP lanceerde, een verwijzing naar de computer die hij achterliet in een reparatiewinkel in Delaware. De koers spoot omhoog naar ruim 200 dollar en stortte daarna in tot 76 dollarcent. Er werden tientallen miljoenen tokens gedumpt vanuit een enkele wallet. Biden ontkent dat hij dat zelf was. Deze week in de Cryptocast Een gesprek met Bert en Peter Slagter, over de situatie op de cryptomarkt. Zij durven voorzichtig te concluderen dat de weg naar boven weer is ingezet, en dat het ook de komende maanden zal doorgaan. We bespreken welke signalen er zijn voor die analyse, en wat we de komende maanden kunnen verwachten. Bitcoin blijft onder de 80.000 dollar in afwachting van nieuwe inflatiecijfers Zcash breekt door 1.200 dollar na instroom in Grayscale ETF Aanval van 320 miljoen dollar op Liquid, hackers noemen zichzelf white hats Hackers sturen 3.400 bitcoin terug en houden 47 miljoen dollar zelf Memecoin LAPTOP van Hunter Biden stort 98 procent in op eerste handelsdag Hunter Biden ziet zijn memecoin binnen enkele minuten instorten Cryptocast 446B | De bearmarket lijkt voorbij, dit zijn de belangrijkste signalen Met Daniël Mol (BNR Cryptocast) of Bart Mol (Satoshi Radio) bespreken we elke week de stand van de cryptomarkt. Luister live donderdagochtend rond 8:50 in De Ochtendspits, of wanneer je wilt via bnr.nl/podcast/cryptocastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alex Thorn and Jon join Kain and Taylor to unpack a Bitcoin hack, two new frontier models, and why nobody trusts their AI chats anymore. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsors! Visit 1inch to swap tokenized securities, crypto and more. Simple. Secure. Self-custodial. Whatever asset you're buying - swap it at ⁠⁠⁠http://unchainedcrypto.com/go/1inch-sn⁠⁠⁠ ======================================================== A Bitcoin sidechain lost $300 million to a consensus bug this week, and the hackers who returned 85% of it are trying to extort a "bug bounty" out of Blockstream for the rest. Alex Thorn, Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy, and Jon, Head of Strategy at Venice and co-founder of ShapeShift, join Kain Warwick and Taylor Monahan to unpack how AI models are now finding exploits faster than the humans who wrote the code, and to push back on the idea that returning stolen funds makes anyone a white hat. They also dig into Astra and Fable 5.1, two frontier models that landed days after a mathematician working inside OpenAI's Codex clashed publicly with OpenAI over who actually solved a Millennium Prize-adjacent proof.  Jon and Alex explain why the "don't train on my data" toggle may not mean much, and why identity is becoming the real privacy battleground. The conversation closes on whether an Anthropic researcher quitting this week is a warning the industry is choosing to ignore. Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Kain Warwick⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Host of Uneasy Money and Founder of Infinex and Synthetix ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Taylor Monahan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Co-host of Uneasy Money and Security Expert Guests: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Alex Thorn - Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jon - Head of Strategy at Venice and Co-founder of ShapeShift Timestamps

De bitcoinkoers staat op 78.000 dollar, en dat is al een paar weken zo. Saai, maar ook positief: halverwege augustus sprong bitcoin plots van 60.000 naar rond de 80.000 dollar, en sindsdien lijkt de markt aan dat niveau gewend te zijn geraakt. Op de cryptomarkt geldt dat als het fundament voor verdere stijging. Eén grote uitschieter op de rest van de markt: privacycoin Zcash steeg deze week met ruim 50 procent en is nu meer dan 1.200 dollar waard. Half augustus stond de koers nog rond de 500 dollar. Privacy is dit jaar weer een populair thema, en de nieuwe Zcash ETF, een beursgenoteerd beleggingsproduct, gaf het laatste zetje. Het grootste nieuws van de week kwam van Liquid, een tweede laag bovenop bitcoin die vooral door exchanges wordt gebruikt om onderling soepel transacties af te handelen. Via een nieuw geïntroduceerde kwetsbaarheid werd de reserve van 4.000 bitcoin weggeplukt, goed voor 270 miljoen euro. De aanvallers lieten een bericht achter op de blockchain: 'We are white hats, contact us on chain'. Goedaardige hackers dus, die het geld wilden teruggeven. Dat gebeurde maar deels. Het gesprek tussen de hackers en Blockstream, eigenaar van Liquid, speelde zich af op de blockchain en was voor iedereen te volgen. De hackers wilden pas terugbetalen als de bug in de nieuwste software was opgelost. Ruim 24 uur na de aanval kwam 3.400 bitcoin terug, bijna 600 bitcoin bleef in de wallet van de hacker staan, zo'n 40 miljoen euro. Daarna volgde alleen nog een verdrietige smiley. Of dat een afgesproken vergoeding was, weet niemand. En dan Hunter Biden, die woensdag zijn eigen memecoin LAPTOP lanceerde, een verwijzing naar de computer die hij achterliet in een reparatiewinkel in Delaware. De koers spoot omhoog naar ruim 200 dollar en stortte daarna in tot 76 dollarcent. Er werden tientallen miljoenen tokens gedumpt vanuit een enkele wallet. Biden ontkent dat hij dat zelf was. Deze week in de Cryptocast Een gesprek met Bert en Peter Slagter, over de situatie op de cryptomarkt. Zij durven voorzichtig te concluderen dat de weg naar boven weer is ingezet, en dat het ook de komende maanden zal doorgaan. We bespreken welke signalen er zijn voor die analyse, en wat we de komende maanden kunnen verwachten. Bitcoin blijft onder de 80.000 dollar in afwachting van nieuwe inflatiecijfers Zcash breekt door 1.200 dollar na instroom in Grayscale ETF Aanval van 320 miljoen dollar op Liquid, hackers noemen zichzelf white hats Hackers sturen 3.400 bitcoin terug en houden 47 miljoen dollar zelf Memecoin LAPTOP van Hunter Biden stort 98 procent in op eerste handelsdag Hunter Biden ziet zijn memecoin binnen enkele minuten instorten Cryptocast 446B | De bearmarket lijkt voorbij, dit zijn de belangrijkste signalen Met Daniël Mol (BNR Cryptocast) of Bart Mol (Satoshi Radio) bespreken we elke week de stand van de cryptomarkt. Luister live donderdagochtend rond 8:50 in De Ochtendspits, of wanneer je wilt via bnr.nl/podcast/cryptocastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A white hat hacker just moved 4,000 bitcoin out of Blockstream's Liquid sidechain, and while that story unfolds, the G20 quietly made "growth" the only word that matters. Marty and John break down why debt, deregulation, and cheap energy are becoming the entire playbook - and why Bitcoin keeps showing up as the trade no matter which way the plan breaks.

The last day. Brady opened with the count, 37 shows in 50 days, and the campaign's frame: political independence 250 years ago, monetary independence now. Yan Pritzker, Frank Corva, Suze and Alec on stage; Unseen Finance returned at the end.The Liquid hack, plainly. On Sunday somebody sent 4,000 L-BTC to SideSwap's peg-out and the Liquid Federation paid out real Bitcoin. The L-BTC had been created from nothing. Blockstream paused the sidechain and 3,400 Bitcoin came back Monday.⭐ Yan on what broke: a caching bug, not anyone's keys. "The only two hard problems in computer science are naming and cache invalidation." Two transactions shared one cache key, so validators mistook a fake for one already checked.Why it is not Bitcoin. Yan: Liquid is an 11-of-15 federation of companies with its own database and rules. "This is a separate thing, this is not Bitcoin itself." Lightning is built on Bitcoin script; Liquid is not.⭐ Frank on the 15%. The hackers returned 85% and kept about 600 Bitcoin. His question: will anyone be made whole, and if they keep it, "they're surely not white hats." A Bitcoin Policy Institute lawyer offered to talk.Yan's verdict on the hat color: gray. Taking everything to beat a black hat is arguable. Keeping a cut is not. "You don't just return a wallet and take a bunch of stuff out of it."Suze's question: Bitcoiners are ruthless about added trust assumptions, so why did Liquid get a pass? "Were we discerning enough?" Leave the base layer and you take on another code base and another set of failure points.⭐ Yan on open source in the AI era: it stays because every open project gets red-teamed by the whole internet. Closed systems get hacked too, "we just don't hear about them." The base chain is "the ultimate boss" nobody has beaten.Yan's bank numbers, read live from the Identity Theft Resource Center: 3,332 reported data compromises in 2025 affecting 280 million people, 739 of them in financial services. "Bank-grade security" is not a standard anyone actually meets.⭐ Frank's hard question: must the layers be as bulletproof as Bitcoin? Yan: nothing is, and the only path is slow growth. Bitcoin was attacked at $1, then $10,000, then a billion. Early adopters carry the risk.Yan's rocket-ship rule. Bitcoin Core engineering is closer to launching a spacecraft than shipping web software. "Years of careful review, study, simulations on other chains." Test new tech on other coins for two years first.Suze asked whether ossification risks losing the skills to change Bitcoin in 50 years. Frank and Yan: no. Ossification is no new features, not no developers, and AI has widened who can work on cryptography and game theory.Yan on open-weight versus hosted AI: the same debate as open source versus closed, and open source won the internet. His advice to companies: externalize memory, skills and harness so you can swap models. Swan built its own.Unseen Finance returned with a proposal: these incidents are a credibility problem for the services on top of Bitcoin, not for Bitcoin. His fix, borrowed from banking: a self-regulatory body plus an insurance pool that service providers pay into.Brady's tally at the close: Cory, Yan, Steve, Alec, Isaiah, Matt and Brandon from Swan; Larry Lepard three times; Parker Lewis, Daniel Batten, Tom and Callum, Guy Swann, Ryan MacLeod, Alana, Bob Burnett, Roxana. Suze made 35 of 37.The close. "We have the tools, we have the knowledge, we have the culture, we have the determination." The half-price buy fee ends today; limit orders placed today keep it. Yan's last word: take security seriously, "go play with AI."

The Liquid Network, a prominent Bitcoin sidechain, recently suffered a massive security breach resulting in the theft of $320 million in digital assets. An attacker exploited a software vulnerability to generate unbacked tokens and withdraw roughly 4,000 bitcoins, which represented nearly the entire reserve held in the network's shared vault. Identifying as "white hat" hackers, the perpetrators have engaged in on-chain negotiations, promising to return the funds once Blockstream and its partners fully patch the underlying code. This incident has forced several major exchanges to halt transactions and has sparked intense debate regarding the inherent risks of wrapped assets and federated bridge security. Critics argue that regardless of the thieves' stated intentions, the event exposes a systemic failure in the infrastructure relied upon by institutional crypto traders. Ultimately, the breach highlights the urgent need for more resilient safeguards as digital currency moves further into the financial mainstream.

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Connect with Early Riders — https://www.earlyriders.com/contactConnect with Onramp — https://onrampbitcoin.com/contact-us/Presented collaboratively by Early Riders & Onramp Media…Final Settlement is a weekly podcast covering capital markets, dealmaking, early-stage venture, bitcoin applications and protocol development.Michael, Liam, and Brian open on BitGo acquiring NYDIG's institutional trading business for a reported $42.5 million, and on Russia's largest bank moving to accept Bitcoin, ETH, and USDT as loan collateral while forecasting $46 billion of regulated crypto exchange trading in year one. They get into why a sanctioned, energy rich sovereign is the one recollateralizing first, Blockstream's new post quantum signature proposal, and the SEC sending a crypto custody overhaul to the White House with the Clarity Act stalled. The back half is market plumbing: why settlement is the real prize, the tokenized GLD that spiked to $2,000 on Robinhood over the weekend against $400 for the underlying, bank tokenized deposits, and Robinhood's chain now out-earning every Ethereum L2. They close on Hyperliquid, trading Anthropic shares on entropy.io, the Singularity Stack report, NVIDIA buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, and a $400 robot duck that talks over Nostr.Chapters00:00 - Bessent, Warsh, and the bond market03:32 - BitGo acquires NYDIG's institutional trading business07:47 - What BitGo actually gets: liquidity, scale, and stickiness11:24 - Russia's largest bank moves on BTC, ETH, and USDT12:56 - Recollateralizing the global financial system15:34 - Energy rich and sanctioned: why Russia goes first18:14 - Is the US behind, or already through the door?20:58 - Blockstream's quantum fix and the Shrinks proposal24:14 - The SEC preps an overhaul of crypto custody rules28:35 - Why settlement is the prize: DTC, IOUs, and T+033:10 - Tokenized GLD spikes to $2,000 on Robinhood35:04 - Tokenized deposits, bank consortiums, and JP Morgan38:31 - Robinhood chain now out-earns every Ethereum L243:54 - Hyperliquid, Trump, and 24/7 commodities47:16 - Trading Anthropic shares on entropy.io51:12 - The Singularity Stack report and Onramp is hiring56:13 - NVIDIA buys Hugging Face, and a $400 robot duck on NostrIf you found this valuable, please subscribe to Early Riders Insights for access to the best content in the ecosystem weekly: https://www.earlyriders.com/researchKeep up with Michael:https://x.com/MTangumaKeep up with Liam:https://x.com/Lnelson_21Keep up with Brian:https://x.com/BackslashBTC

Matt and Nic return for another week of deals and news. In this episode:  Matt and Nic consider candidates for the new bad boys intro music 39 state banking associations form the BankChain alliance Blockstream researchers proposed SHRINCS, a PQ signature scheme for Bitcoin How much should depositors care about bank credit risk? Kalshi hosts a prediction market on goat grazing regulation Are trading bot agents getting good? Blockstream proposes SHRINCS for Bitcoin Zcash hits an 8-year high Treasury designates anyone helping Iran's crypto sector AI watermarking Bad boys theme song submissions: Ian's song Seth's song Content mentioned: Omid Malekan, The banking lobby's bad faith campaign to kill the Clarity Act will backfire Nic Carter, A Second and Final Eulogy for Bitcoin Maximalism  

Recorded in January 2019 and published alongside the rest of the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast Season 1 episodes in February 2019, this interview with John Carvalho is one of the show's early hits and a statement that this initiative is able to feature unique insights from popular bitcoiners. The remastered version features enhanced audio, with some extra EQ and compression. Special thanks to Helen's Pizza for sponsoring this initiative! Time stamps: 0:00 - Intro: Why This Episode Matters 4:16 - Welcome: John Carvalho, the Bitcoin Error Log 5:17 - Bitcoin Politics and the Early Days 6:39 - The Bitcoin Foundation: Ego Platform or Useful Body? 8:53 - First Contact: Silk Road, Forums and IRC 11:40 - Buying Bitcoin in 2012: Mt. Gox, Dwolla and BitInstant 13:20 - The Foundation's Founders and Its Failures 15:45 - The Rebranding Effort and Why It Failed Again 17:04 - The Impossibility of Organizing Benevolent Bitcoin 20:04 - Bitcoin Core, Communication and the Leaderless Project 23:50 - No Official Narrative: Bitcoin's Many Stories 25:49 - Consensus as the Lowest Common Denominator 28:01 - Should Everything Be on a Blockchain? 28:58 - Surviving Market Cycles: Everyone Who Sold Was Wrong 32:46 - Bitcoins Want to Be Free: The Lord of the Rings Theory 34:05 - Roger Ver Attacks Andreas Antonopoulos 37:08 - How Big Is Bitcoin Really? The Coinbase Illusion 40:52 - Media Conglomerates and Hidden Concentration 42:13 - Decentralization Theater and arewedecentralizedyet.com 42:47 - Refusing BitPay and Political Spending 44:46 - Censorship Resistance as Bitcoin's Core Purpose 46:46 - Debunking "Swiss Bank Account in Your Pocket" 48:26 - What Caused the 2017 Bull Run? 51:31 - Stocks as Stores of Value and What Bitcoin Will Cure 53:44 - No College Degree: Comic Books, Punk Rock and Design 56:19 - Massachusetts [Redacted]: Growing Up Arguing 57:21 - Preparing for the Roger Ver Interview 58:32 - The Bcash Moment: Triggered, Not Scripted 1:00:46 - Roger's Debate Tactics: Zoom In, Zoom Out 1:04:36 - Skepticism as a Survival Skill 1:05:32 - Blockstream: Great Developers, Unclear Business Model 1:09:28 - r/btc Conspiracies and the AXA Myth 1:13:48 - Roger's War Chest and the Cost of Fighting Markets 1:18:17 - Will Roger Ever Come Back to Bitcoin? 1:20:40 - Pepe Politics and the Attention Economy 1:22:11 - The Evolution of Bitcoin and the Lightning Generation 1:23:06 - Bitrefill, Gift Cards and the Circular Economy 1:26:09 - Steemit Critique: Gamify, Don't Scam 1:27:16 - Brave, BAT and the Nonsense of Paid Attention 1:30:52 - Hitchcock's Bladder Rule and Final Questions 1:31:55 - Hyperbitcoinization: Hype, Greed and Small Wins 1:35:17 - Nation States Secretly Accumulating Bitcoin? 1:36:29 - Bitcoin and the Shift in Global Power 1:39:32 - Merchant Adoption and the Tax Man Problem 1:42:06 - Bitcoin in 10 Years: Disruption Incoming 1:43:43 - Bitcoin Is a Consensus Ponzi (and So Is All Money) 1:44:26 - The Cantillon Effect and Inflationary Money 1:47:59 - Closing: A Bitcoin Every Thousand Years

Casey Rodarmor and Erin Redwing dive deep into Paul Sztorc's eCash Bitcoin fork and the return of the Bitcoin fork wars. The fork implements Drivechain through BIP 300 and BIP 301, allowing Bitcoin to support side chains for privacy, prediction markets, decentralized exchanges, assets, DNS, post-quantum cryptography, and more — without adding those features directly to Bitcoin Core.We break down how hashrate escrow and blind merge mining actually work, the seven proposed Drivechain side chains, the controversial redistribution of 500,000 of Satoshi's coins, and the central question hanging over the entire proposal: can Bitcoin miners actually be trusted to make this work?Get bonus content by subscribing to @hellmoneypod on X: https://x.com/hellmoneypod/creator-subscriptions/subscribeOr support the podcast by sending a BTC donation: bc1qztncp7lmcxdgude4px2vzh72p2yu2aud0eyzys ORDINALS SHIRT: https://shop.inscribing.com/products/ordinals-protocol-shirtTIMESTAMPS:0:00 Intro8:18 Fork Wars: Paul Sztorc's eCash Bitcoin Fork11:17 What is Drivechain? BIP 300 & BIP 30112:56 Satoshi Coin Redistribution & Drivechain Timeline14:17 Side Chains: Bitcoin's White Whale18:04 Blockstream's Liquid & Why Side Chains Fail21:22 Lightning vs Side Chains23:07 Hashrate Escrow Deep Dive: How BIP 300 Works28:00 Blind Merge Mining & Core Untouched Soft Fork32:28 The Seven Proposed Drivechain Side Chains36:30 Who Validates the Side Chains?40:40 Are Miners Stupid or is Drivechain Stupid?44:00 Paul Sztorc's Integrity & Pathological Honesty51:00 The Fork Wars: Luke vs Paul vs Michael59:00 What Makes Bitcoin Bitcoin?1:04:00 Should You Spend Your Bitcoin? Deflationary Psychology1:13:00 The Future of Bitcoin & Sovereign Individuals1:20:00 OutroTopics covered: Drivechain, Paul Sztorc, eCash, BIP 300, BIP 301, Bitcoin side chains, hashrate escrow, blind merge mining, Bitcoin miners, Satoshi Nakamoto coins, BIP-110, Luke Dashjr, Michael Saylor, Bitcoin ossification, Lightning Network, Bitcoin scaling, privacy, prediction markets, Bitcoin hard forks, Bitcoin governance, and the future of Bitcoin.

Kurt Wuckert Jr. is best known for his work at Gorilla Pool and CoinGeek. In this interview, he explains why BSV formed from BCH, what are the biggest differences between the two versions of big block Bitcoin, and why he believes he found Satoshi Nakamoto. 00:49 – The Cake Wallet contest explained 01:22 – Who is Kurt Wuckert Jr? Print shop, 2012, and the making of a big blocker 02:07 – The OP_RETURN reduction that killed his tokenization project 03:28 – The Hodlonaut photo controversy in Oslo: Kurt's side of the story 07:02 – Vlad on the fallout: friendship, slander, and psychological damage 09:21 – The handshake Hodlonaut refused, and Kurt's public apology 12:03 – The irony: Hodlonaut now sounds like a 2016 big blocker 13:53 – Dan Kaminsky's 2011 gigabyte block slides 15:46 – Andrew DeSantis, world computer ideas before Vitalik 17:13 – Why Mike Hearn was Kurt's first big block influence 19:14 – BIP 101, 102, 103: when block size was not controversial 22:46 – Gavin's 8 GB by 2036 plan and Jeff Garzik's modest 2 MB 25:23 – Lightning, Liquid, and the migration of activity to other chains 29:03 – Vlad's Raspberry Pi Lightning node confession 30:42 – Jack Dorsey and the lightning bank thesis 32:19 – BTC's share of market cap vs its share of transactions 32:42 – Tether on Tron and the Tetheral Reserve 35:39 – IShowSpeed in Nigeria: USDT accepted, Visa declined 37:36 – Chat question: what if Michael Saylor called to pivot to BSV? 40:24 – Saylor's anti-development tweets and the perfectionism trap 41:37 – SPV debates and engineering for perfection 44:24 – Why Bitcoin Core devs do not stack 47:01 – The 2018 inflation bug disclosed by a BCH developer 48:23 – The DDoS attacks on Bitcoin XT nodes 48:58 – The Resolution of the Bitcoin Experiment and the Mike Hearn wish 51:18 – The merchant adoption Bitcoin lost 52:24 – WBTC's 120,000 BTC vs Lightning's 5,000 53:09 – Sponsors: Braiins, Cake Wallet, SideShift, OrangeRock, Ecash 59:38 – Kurt on drivechains and Paul Sztorc 1:03:36 – The BCH/BSV split: what actually happened in November 2018 1:08:08 – Rolling checkpoints and the night of the fork 1:11:46 – Where Kurt was when the chain split 1:16:47 – Kurt's coin strategy: the Satoshi index of unsplit UTXOs 1:21:10 – The Binance delisting wave and Paolo Ardoino's defense 1:24:17 – Who invests and builds in BSV: Calvin Ayre, Tokenovate, Gorilla Pool 1:31:41 – Kurt's presentation to one of the world's biggest banks 1:33:05 – What BSV can do that BCH cannot 1:37:04 – Satoshi's disabled opcodes and the 2010 value overflow bug 1:39:16 – The poker client and marketplace in Bitcoin v0.1 1:41:48 – BCH's ABLA, CashTokens, and the governance difference 1:47:39 – The Monero codebase stored on BSV 1:48:05 – The DAR and Blacklist Manager hard forks 1:51:03 – CZ's aborted Binance rollback 1:55:33 – The white paper's immutability clause vs DAR 2:03:55 – Vlad's dormant-coins nightmare scenario 2:08:33 – The Craig Wright verdict as proof the system works 2:11:56 – Does Kurt still think Craig Wright is Satoshi? 2:15:36 – Dave Kleiman, the Drive Wipe Fallacy, and the Satoshi writing style 2:23:28 – The key slices, Uyen Nguyen, and the missing thumb drives 2:27:50 – Vlad's counter: the California IP address 2:32:00 – Bitcoin as an American project 2:35:32 – Hodlonaut replies mid-show 2:36:29 – If Craig is Satoshi, why sue the developers? 2:44:57 – The Arnhem 2017 speech 2:50:56 – Craig's neurodivergence and the villain arc 2:59:23 – The Gavin Andresen signing ceremony 3:04:58 – The rental Lamborghini and the pattern of bending truth 3:12:31 – Ryan X Charles and the post-COPA denunciations 3:14:04 – Can BSV exist without Craig Wright? 3:19:24 – BitVM: Craig's Turing completeness claim vindicated 3:20:44 – The giveaway reveal: the number is 40 3:22:24 – Would Kurt work on anything else if BSV died? 3:24:46 – Monero, fungibility, and the historian job offer 3:26:43 – OPL.dev, Bitcoin Schema, Sigma Identity 3:29:01 – The Smashing Pumpkins truce 3:32:00 – The Epstein money vindication 3:35:12 – Kurt's plugs: Gorilla Pool, kurtwuckertjr.com, bopen.ai 3:36:12 – Vlad's promise: this episode goes on the BSV blockchain 3:38:00 – The Mike Hearn introduction request 3:38:15 – Outro and sponsor thanks

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Ruim zeventig cryptobedrijven willen van de grootste AI-ontwikkelaars ter wereld vroege toegang tot hun nieuwste en krachtigste modellen. In een open brief met de titel Defenders need the frontier, een initiatief van het Bitcoin Policy Institute, stellen de ondertekenaars dat wie de software onderhoudt waar biljoenen dollars mee worden beschermd, dezelfde gereedschappen moet hebben als cybercriminelen. Onder hen staan grote namen als Coinbase, Block, BitGo en Blockstream, maar ook kleine stichtingen en nonprofits die zulke rekenkracht nooit zelf kunnen betalen. Het knelpunt zit in de veiligheidsfilters. Aanvallers werken met openbare modellen die geen vragen stellen, terwijl de beveiligingsteams van cryptobedrijven worden geblokkeerd zodra ze een model vragen om kwetsbaarheden op te sporen. Naast toegang vragen de ondertekenaars om rekenkracht, om beveiligde omgevingen waarin ze eigen code kunnen laten onderzoeken, om beschikbaarheid voor kleine en grote bedrijven, en om een directe lijn naar de beveiligingsteams van de AI-bedrijven zelf. Hoe groot de haast is, bleek begin deze maand bij de hack van hardwarewallets van het merk Coldcard, waarbij miljoenen aan bitcoin werd gestolen. Daarna begon een groep van zestien vrijwilligers onder de naam Bitcoin Red Team met het doorlichten van open source software. Zij vonden bijna vijfduizend kwetsbaarheden bij 390 projecten, waarvan 85 kritiek, en dat zonder de exclusieve modellen. Wel lopen ze tegen de kosten aan: één kritieke bug per uur per persoon kost al zo'n tienduizend dollar per dag aan rekenkracht. De prijsanalyse komt van Tim Stolte. Hij ziet een markt die vrijwel stilstaat, met een volatiliteit die lager ligt dan hij ooit heeft gemeten. Zijn zorg zit in de derivatenmarkt, want wie in een rustige markt hefboomposities opbouwt, vergroot het risico op een golf van liquidaties zodra de prijs een kant kiest. Aandelen liepen op na meevallende inflatiecijfers, terwijl bitcoin terugbewoog naar het midden van zijn bandbreedte en onder de hardnekkige 65.000 dollar bleef. Woensdag ontvangt Trump bestuurders uit de crypto, financiële en technologiesector in het Witte Huis, en later die dag verschijnen de notulen van de rentevergadering van juli. Stolte verwacht meer van die notulen dan van de bijeenkomst. Tot slot Vitalik Buterin, die zijn toekomstvisie voor Ethereum uit 2023 heeft herzien. Hij noemt het zelf geen roadmap maar een strawmap, en op strawmap.org staat een tijdlijn tot 2029 in drie lagen. Bescherming tegen quantumcomputers staat er nu als noorderster boven, privacy is naar voren gehaald, en Buterin vraagt zich hardop af of de EVM, de machine waarop ethereumapplicaties draaien, wel voor altijd het hart van het netwerk moet blijven. Zijn slotwoord is dat Ethereum lean wordt, oftewel eenvoudiger, want van simpele code valt wiskundig veel makkelijker te bewijzen dat hij doet wat hij belooft. Co-host is Raoul Esseboom. Over de podcast Cryptocurrency are here to stay. In deze wekelijkse podcast gidst Daniël Mol je door het belangrijkste cryptonieuws, langs hypes en trends, voor- en tegenstanders en winst en verlies. In het A-deel bespreken we het laatste nieuws en in het B-deel gaan we in gesprek met een gast. Van cypherpunkpioneers tot grootbanken die aan de haal gaan met stablecoins, van Bitcoin tot Ethereum tot CBDC's. Alles passeert de revue.Reageren? Stuur dan een mail naar cryptocast@bnr.nl Gasten Raoul Esseboom is contentspecialist bij BLOX en oprichter van Cryptotakkies. Tim Stolte is portfoliomanager bij Amdax en host van de podcast Een Nieuwe Koers. Links De open brief Defenders need the frontier van het Bitcoin Policy Institute Het Bitcoin Policy Institute kondigt de open brief aan op X Cryptobedrijven vragen AI-labs om dezelfde gereedschappen die aanvallers al hebben Vitalik Buterin legt zijn herziene plannen voor Ethereum uit op X De strawmap met alle geplande upgrades tot en met 2029 Buterin zet bescherming tegen quantumcomputers en privacy vooraan Host Daniël Mol is presentator en redacteur van de Cryptocast. Hij is sinds 2017 met Bitcoin bezig en kwam in 2021 bij het team van de Cryptocast. Redactie Daniël Mol Donner Bakker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Suze's Forbes piece, and the question under it. Her Telegram reporting found a persistent identifier that survives restarts, network changes and borders, with the credible risk being targeted surveillance rather than mass tracking. Her real question: why is don't-trust-verify never applied to companies and personalities inside Bitcoin? The confessions, and Cory's calibration. American HODL admitted he bought a Coldcard largely as a badge of Maxi Club membership, and Odell described being pulled into a cult of personality. Cory's distinction: someone who bills himself as a technical expert and reviews products carries responsibility a self-described bullshitter does not. He also warned against the new bad heuristic. Treating abrasiveness as a proxy for bad code fails immediately: Core and Blockstream are full of people who read as cocky and their code is sound. He credited NVK as a genuinely good educator while calling the outcome inexcusable. Brandon Quittem: deep in it, not at peak. Maximum wealth inequality is a classic Fourth Turning signpost, and the post-war institutions are a shell of themselves without anyone needing to be malicious. He held his own confidence low throughout, calling the framework a rough way to squint at the world. His bet on the climax. Not a head-to-head with China, which a hyperglobalized economy makes unlikely, but a Cold War 2.0: proxy and economic war, trade policy, supply-chain fights, plausible deniability, and zero-day attacks on each other's infrastructure. AI through the Fourth Turning lens. The authors would say technology is always arriving and the variable is how the generational mood receives it. Facebook landed because millennials were the sharing archetype; Gen X would have refused it. He calls AI pure leverage with no clear direction. Horseshoe theory, and Bitcoin as the through line. Answering Suz on where left and right even are now: both extremes arrive at authoritarianism from the same wealth-inequality catalyst, which is why Bernie and Trump were popular at once. Bitcoin is what pushes back on both. He retracted his own timeline live. Five years ago he would have called a Bitcoin standard likely by 2030 and now says that was far too aggressive. A First Turning looks like exhaustion, inequality easing, culture getting more boring, and it may only be visible in hindsight. The libngu decision, traced. An audience question surfaced that the firmware was rewritten off a GPL library partly out of anger at being cloned, producing an in-house source-available replacement and fewer eyes. Of 300-plus repos the red team has scanned, the one that came back completely clean was libsecp256k1. The synthesis, and the way out. Suz: Bitcoiners who believe they saw through the system struggle to admit deception, because it means admitting they were fooled. Brandon: that lowers the guard rather than raising it. His prescription is local, not global. Be the sewer rat yourself.

Dice rolls are now confirmed safe. Portland HODL published a full verification, independently cross-checked by James O'Beirne, Block's engineering team and Rob Hamilton: the Coldcard did use dice entropy rather than falling back to the pseudo-random generator. Fifty or more rolls was sufficient. Still rotate anyway. The prevailing view on the show was that dice-generated seeds are safe but worth rotating as hygiene. Separately, no other hardware wallet firmware vulnerability has surfaced yet from the red-team sweep. The red team is scaling. Rob Hamilton's group, now joined by other Bitcoin developers, is pointing Kimi K3 and other frontier models at repos across the ecosystem. Critical vulnerabilities have been found and responsibly disclosed, none in hardware wallets so far. Cory rejects the "always more to learn" framing. He argued that line doesn't apply here: the entire point of code securing assets is that there can be no mistakes that put those assets at risk. He gave two press interviews on the exploit. The custody spectrum, with a chart in the nest. Cory laid out five positions: solo self-custody, guided self-custody via Swan Sovereign at $25 a month, collaborative multisig, delegated custody with OCC-chartered custodians, and multi-institutional custody, which Swan has been building since December. The real gap is knowing how to use your wallet. Alec, who spent the weekend on client calls, found people holding large amounts in setups they could not operate. Getting Bitcoin off an exchange is not enough. Practice moving it more than once. Jason on the false binary. People have been taught there is one right way to hold Bitcoin, and that it's the most esoteric one. His question: what is self-custody worth if you cannot move your coins in an emergency? Zach Herbert of Foundation. Self-custody is not dead, and he framed this as negligence by a single vendor rather than an indictment of every maker. His takeaway is free and open source software, shared libraries and engagement with auditors. He calls it the worst event for committed Bitcoiners since Mt. Gox. Boltz went dark. The Lightning swap provider shut down entirely, hit by automated attacks faster than a small team could patch, taking swaps in Zeus, Aqua and Blockstream's app with it. No user funds lost. Brady drew the line from Kimi K3's release through Coldcard to this. The AI incentive argument. Phillip's case: calls to regulate AI harder are moat-building, not safety, and defenders keep having to reach for open-weight models because the US frontier models refuse legitimate security work. Steve noted five figures a day in tokens is not a sustainable audit model.

Vinny Lingham is a Bitcoin OG who pioneered gift card payments in 2012 with Gyft, served on the board of the Bitcoin Foundation, spearheaded blockchain identity verification with CIvic, and in more recent years moved on to managing risk with Praxos Capital. Thanks to some of his accurate price predictions, Vinny has also received the nickname "The Oracle". In this episode, we talk about his Bitcoin journey and how his views have evolved over the last 14 years. Time stamps: 00:01:06 Intro & sponsors: Vinny Lingham, 15 years in Bitcoin 00:02:04 Gyft: a dozen companies and one gift card problem 00:02:26 Chargebacks, stolen cards & getting attacked by scammers 00:04:13 Why Bitcoin looked like the perfect payment rail 00:04:51 Zero-conf payments and the first-seen rule 00:05:48 The Starbucks and McDonald's signature math 00:06:51 100,000 Bitcoin payments, zero double spends 00:07:13 Civic's Bitcoin patents & the 2017 fee explosion 00:07:37 Blockstream, Adam Back, MIT and the Epstein files 00:08:10 Core keeps pruning dissenting voices 00:08:55 Why Bitcoin still can't be the whitepaper's payment system 00:09:08 Counterparty, Mastercoin & the birth of Ethereum 00:09:34 "Nothing has happened in Bitcoin in five years" 00:10:16 Why he went and backed Solana instead 00:10:23 Sympathy for BIP 110 over Core 00:11:08 Inscriptions can be done many ways 00:12:27 "Lightning will be ready in 18 months" forever 00:13:26 Drivechains, BIP 300 & the Ecash fork paying miners 00:14:44 UX, mainstream users and idiot-proof money 00:15:17 People who don't know you can hold BTC outside an ETF 00:15:27 Is the ETF the real scaling layer? 00:15:37 What Vinny signed up for when he read the whitepaper 00:16:30 Wayne Vaughn in the chat 00:16:48 Saylor's Bitcoin Security Consortium and the $15M 00:17:24 Saylor argues against bigger blocks and covenants 00:17:49 How is this different from the Bitcoin Foundation? 00:18:36 Saylor as systemic risk: crashing the minority fork 00:19:43 Losing SPV and the simplicity of early Bitcoin 00:20:48 When did you last actually use Bitcoin? 00:21:22 Six confirmations vs Apple Pay 00:21:41 Gyft's customers who had no credit cards 00:22:07 Not a store of value: a store of liquidity 00:23:24 So what is a store of value, exactly? 00:26:00 The 100 year test: one ounce of gold buys one suit 00:27:09 Does the whitepaper ever say "digital gold"? 00:27:53 Saylor's redefinition: expensive to move, held by institutions 00:28:08 Privacy, tiny payments and why volume creates stability 00:28:42 Exchanges are layer two, Lightning is layer three 00:29:06 Solana at the World Series of Poker 00:30:07 BSV, Teranode, BCH and who actually handles volume 00:30:58 Does everyone really need to run a node? 00:31:30 Luke Dashjr, 16MB blocks and 50 billion Catholics 00:33:34 Arguing with someone who redefines words 00:34:33 How did Blockstream become so politically powerful? 00:35:40 Reid Hoffman's $20 million 00:36:26 Reading the Epstein files with Bitcoin eyes 00:36:45 Tether won the global south instead 00:37:42 "The community is people who never built anything" 00:38:00 Why Elon Musk walked away from Bitcoin 00:39:07 The ESG excuse & the Bitcoin Mining Council 00:40:05 Elon on bandwidth, latency and second layers 00:41:03 Why Civic started on Bitcoin and left 00:42:05 Multicoin, the Solana seed round & founding Praxos 00:42:29 Why "Civic" and not "Supra" 00:42:46 Nobody wants identity: crypto's actual number one use case 00:44:03 Zcash's comeback, Ironwood & the auditable supply 00:45:34 Delistings and the headwinds facing privacy coins 00:46:06 Why Zcash chose DeFi rails over merchant adoption 00:47:07 How to know you're in a bear market 00:47:25 Elgamarov & how small this world really is 00:48:10 What does Vinny actually hold today? 00:49:27 Praxos: delta neutral, funding rates and volatility 00:51:44 Sponsors: Braiins, Cake Wallet, SideShift, LayerTwo Labs, Orange Rock 00:54:40 Wayne Vaughn's question: will the CLARITY Act pass? 00:56:47 Michael Saylor and the Strategy problem 00:57:14 The GBTC discount scenario 00:58:16 Why August could be a bloodbath 01:01:56 Node counts, sybil attacks and hash rate 01:03:16 The rewritten history of SegWit and SegWit2x 01:04:19 How Bitcoin Cash became the fallback plan 01:04:59 Gavin Andresen and the word "bamboozled" 01:06:00 Was Craig Wright involved at all? 01:08:04 Hal Finney's logs and the Van Nuy, California IP address 01:08:55 GMX, German privacy law and the missing paper trail 01:11:17 Roger Ver, the checksum test and Craig 01:13:00 Asking Claude who Satoshi is 01:14:17 The case for Nick Szabo and the trusted third parties 01:15:31 The counterfactual: what if Bitcoin had scaled? 01:19:35 Tron, USDT and five years of outperforming BTC 01:20:09 Bitcoiners understand supply, not demand 01:20:36 What happens when the block rewards run out 01:21:15 Rentable SHA256 and the state actor attack scenario 01:22:54 Will Vinny claim the August fork airdrops?

Nine of the biggest names in finance put up $15 million between them. IBM alone is spending $10 billion.On July 23 the Bitcoin Security Consortium launched: BlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy, Block, Blockstream, Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, Fidelity Digital Assets and Galaxy, pledging $15 million over three years for post-quantum research. There is no pooled fund and no governance role over the protocol — every firm writes its own cheques, and Brink's Mike Schmidt coordinates the whole thing as an unpaid volunteer. Joey and Len take the obvious objection seriously and then take the other side seriously too, because that structure was built specifically to make capture harder, not easier.The number everyone will repeat is 6.9 million BTC — roughly $460 billion — sitting in address types a working quantum computer could empty. That's a Google Quantum AI estimate, and estimates vary widely: other researchers put the exposed share anywhere from 20% to 50% of supply. No such machine exists. Adam Back says decades. Project Eleven's CEO says 2029 worst case, 2033 base case.Then: Jack Mallers walks away from Twenty One Capital and the treasury model keeps coming apart — Satsuma liquidating all 668 BTC, Sequans down more than 80%, Strategy selling 3,588 coins to fund a dividend. And CertiK's numbers on physical attacks against holders, including Canada's own file.Plus Clown World North: a Vancouver council hearing took public comment from Los Angeles, Ottawa waived the reporting requirements on a $12.1 million grant that has produced zero excavations in five years, and Alberta pulled a 2.4-pound goldfish out of a stormwater pond.The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast - New episodes weekly.X: https://x.com/CanadianBTCPodJoey: https://x.com/joeytweeetsLen: https://x.com/thebtcpricebotSite: https://canadianbitcoiners.com#Bitcoin #BitcoinSecurity #Quantum #Canada

Nine of the biggest names in finance put up $15 million between them. IBM alone is spending $10 billion.On July 23 the Bitcoin Security Consortium launched: BlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy, Block, Blockstream, Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, Fidelity Digital Assets and Galaxy, pledging $15 million over three years for post-quantum research. There is no pooled fund and no governance role over the protocol — every firm writes its own cheques, and Brink's Mike Schmidt coordinates the whole thing as an unpaid volunteer. Joey and Len take the obvious objection seriously and then take the other side seriously too, because that structure was built specifically to make capture harder, not easier.The number everyone will repeat is 6.9 million BTC — roughly $460 billion — sitting in address types a working quantum computer could empty. That's a Google Quantum AI estimate, and estimates vary widely: other researchers put the exposed share anywhere from 20% to 50% of supply. No such machine exists. Adam Back says decades. Project Eleven's CEO says 2029 worst case, 2033 base case.Then: Jack Mallers walks away from Twenty One Capital and the treasury model keeps coming apart — Satsuma liquidating all 668 BTC, Sequans down more than 80%, Strategy selling 3,588 coins to fund a dividend. And CertiK's numbers on physical attacks against holders, including Canada's own file.Plus Clown World North: a Vancouver council hearing took public comment from Los Angeles, Ottawa waived the reporting requirements on a $12.1 million grant that has produced zero excavations in five years, and Alberta pulled a 2.4-pound goldfish out of a stormwater pond.The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast - New episodes weekly.X: https://x.com/CanadianBTCPodJoey: https://x.com/joeytweeetsLen: https://x.com/thebtcpricebotSite: https://canadianbitcoiners.com#Bitcoin #BitcoinSecurity #Quantum #Canada

Het Witte Huis presenteerde afgelopen week een aangescherpte versie van de Clarity Act, de Amerikaanse wet die moet vastleggen wie in de Verenigde Staten de baas is over crypto: toezichthouder SEC voor effecten, of de CFTC voor grondstoffen en derivaten. Nieuw is een ethiekhoofdstuk van zes artikelen dat de president, de vicepresident, Congresleden, federale rechters en hun echtgenoten verbiedt om tijdens hun ambtstermijn tegen betaling tokens uit te geven of te sponsoren. Bestaande cryptobelangen moeten binnen een jaar worden verkocht of naar een blind trust verhuizen, en beurzen mogen tokens die onder dat verbod vallen niet listen. Toch zit er ruimte in de tekst. Het verbod gaat over uitgeven en sponsoren, niet over bezitten, en een clausule staat uitgevers toe de gelijkenis van een politicus te blijven gebruiken als de token al vóór het aantreden bestond. De TRUMP-coin verscheen drie dagen voor de beëdiging. Kinderen van politici vallen er evenmin onder, terwijl Donald Trump Jr. en Eric Trump betrokken zijn bij World Liberty Financial. Bovendien vervalt het hele pakket op 20 januari 2029, en daarna kunnen ook oudere overtredingen niet meer worden vervolgd. Dat verklaart waarom zeven Democratische senatoren het concept alsnog te mager vinden op ethiek, illegale geldstromen en belangenverstrengeling. Onder hen Angela Alsobrooks en Ruben Gallego, precies de twee die in mei in de commissie vóór stemden. Meerderheidsleider John Thune verwacht niet dat de wet vóór het zomerreces van 10 augustus af is, terwijl minister van Financiën Scott Bessent en cryptoadviseur Patrick Witt de eerste week van augustus nog kansrijk noemen. Handelaren op Polymarket schatten de kans op ondertekening dit jaar op ongeveer 43 procent. Tim Stolte, portfoliomanager bij Amdax en host van de podcast Een Nieuwe Koers, kijkt naar een markt die er in de zomervakantie stabiel bij ligt en steeds een beetje hoger kruipt. Deze week staat ook het rentebesluit van de Amerikaanse centrale bank op het programma. Banken en bedrijven trekken ondertussen miljoenen uit om bitcoin te beschermen tegen quantumcomputers. Bitcoin bewijst eigendom met cryptografie op basis van elliptische curves, en een voldoende krachtige quantumcomputer kan die stap omdraaien: van publieke sleutel terug naar geheime sleutel. Project Eleven schat dat zo'n 6,9 miljoen bitcoin in adressen zit waarvan de publieke sleutel al zichtbaar op de blockchain staat. Over de urgentie lopen de schattingen ver uiteen, van drie tot vijf jaar voorbereidingstijd in een rapport van Bernstein tot twintig tot veertig jaar volgens Adam Back van Blockstream. Aan oplossingen wordt gewerkt. BIP-360 introduceerde in februari een adrestype dat het kwetsbare onderdeel weghaalt, en BIP-361 gaat verder: kwetsbare munten migreren en na vijf jaar bevriezen, waaronder naar schatting 1,7 miljoen bitcoin in oeroude adressen waarvan zo'n miljoen vermoedelijk van Satoshi Nakamoto is. Galaxy stelt tot vijf miljoen dollar beschikbaar voor quantumbestendige handtekeningen, migratietools en audits. Negen partijen zetten daarnaast vijftien miljoen dollar over drie jaar in via het Bitcoin Security Consortium, gecoördineerd door Mike Schmidt van Brink, dat expliciet vastlegt zich niet met het protocol te bemoeien. Co-host is Raoul Esseboom. Over de podcast Cryptocurrency are here to stay. In deze wekelijkse podcast gidst Daniël Mol je door het belangrijkste cryptonieuws, langs hypes en trends, voor- en tegenstanders en winst en verlies. In het A-deel bespreken we het laatste nieuws en in het B-deel gaan we in gesprek met een gast. Van cypherpunkpioneers tot grootbanken die aan de haal gaan met stablecoins, van Bitcoin tot Ethereum tot CBDC's. Alles passeert de revue.Reageren? Stuur dan een mail naar cryptocast@bnr.nl Gasten Raoul Esseboom is contentspecialist bij BLOX en oprichter van Cryptotakkies. Tim Stolte is portfoliomanager bij Amdax en host van de podcast Een Nieuwe Koers. Links Clarity Act krijgt ethiekpakket dat politici verbiedt crypto uit te geven Amerikaanse Clarity Act dreigt opnieuw vertraging op te lopen Thune verwacht dat de Clarity Act zijn deadline voor het zomerreces mist Democraten verzetten zich tegen de ethiektekst in de Clarity Act Galaxy kondigt vijf miljoen dollar aan voor quantumbeveiliging van bitcoin Experts noemen crypto de kanarie in de kolenmijn voor de quantumdreiging Hoe reëel is het dat een quantumcomputer bitcoin naar nul schiet Host Daniël Mol is presentator en redacteur van de Cryptocast. Hij is sinds 2017 met Bitcoin bezig en kwam in 2021 bij het team van de Cryptocast. Redactie Daniël Mol Donner Bakker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I just got back into the Land of the Free, and I have to tell you: it's a prison with a flag on it. Flock cameras on every corner. AI streetlights fitted with tech that can aim at your vehicle and listen to the conversation inside it. I went to the World Cup (no robot dogs yet, thankfully) but the cameras were everywhere, and nobody around me seemed to care. That's the part that should terrify you. Not the technology. The mindset. You just celebrated 250 years of “freedom” inside a surveillance grid your own culture built, because you dislike your neighbor more than you love your liberty. And understand what this machinery is for. The surveillance state is the ultimate weapon against competition, the lockdown mechanism of a rigged game. Politics is rigged. Finance is rigged. And the people who were going to protest it already did; with AI tracking, the rest are too scared to ever try again. They're building machines to follow the orders no human being would. So why don't I just despair? Because we already built the way out. That's why Crypto Vigilante exists… Watch on: Odysee | YouTube | X | Rumble | Bitchute | Vigilante.tv Blockchain is fairness as technology. We stopped trusting corruptible humans and started trusting mathematics. And that is exactly why Bitcoin was hijacked. The powers that be couldn't kill it, so they did something smarter: they convinced you it's a lottery ticket. A number-go-up token you buy on their exchanges and never use. The entire propaganda project has one goal: to keep you dumb, because Satoshi didn't give us a casino chip. He gave us a new internet: digital cash, a world computer, a place where you own your data and AI grows by market demand instead of by central planning. The antithesis of Palantir. And here's the black pill the maxis can't swallow: Bitcoin already scales on chain. Love him or hate him, Craig Wright's camp proved the thesis. BSV is pushing a million transactions per second and computing script on both sides of the UTXO model. They're training AI on chain. Meanwhile the Lightning Network, the thing you were told would save BTC, is dead. Its own whitepaper admitted it needed bigger blocks, and its senior devs keep walking out the door. Which brings us to August, when BTC's stalemate finally cracks in two: In early August, the Knots crew forks off with BIP 110: filter everything, change nothing, ten transactions per second forever. It's the end of the small-blocker experiment, going out with a whimper. August 21st brings the fork I'm actually cheering for: eCash (ECX), from Paul Sztorc and Layer 2 Labs. It uses Drivechains — BIP 300 and 301 — the sidechain technology Blockstream pitched to investors a decade ago and never delivered. Same 21 million coins, but now every philosophy gets its own room in the house. Want a big-blocker chain? Spin it up. Want optional privacy, with Zcash tech on ZSide? Move your coins there. Want scarcity harder than BTC? That exists too. Nobody forces one way of doing things, and no new shitcoins get minted along the way. It's the shitcoin killer, and it's the only lifeboat the BTC Titanic has. And while the forks race to scale Satoshi's vision, there's already a fair game running today: Monero. Private by default, immune to the surveillance grid, no permission needed. Most of our team became privacy enthusiasts the day the Bitcoin civil war started, and they've done just fine. Here's the real point, though. These networks are nothing without you. You are the most important node. The smarter you get, the smarter the network gets. So if I'm wrong, prove it, upgrade the software in your mind, and bring real arguments when you do. Because the psychologists are right: people under surveillance stop being themselves. The first act of resistance is to say it out loud. You live in the land of the surveilled. The second is to stop transacting like a prisoner. Peace, love, anarchy. Stay vigilant. Follow me on X @VamosVigilante Want to be on the pulse of crypto? Access our exclusive portfolio, insider reports, full archive of monthly newsletters, real-time market updates, buy/sell alerts, and private community chat and get instant access to the latest issue of our monthly newsletter… Subscribe now! FREE “Crypto 101” Video Training – Watch Our Millionaire Crypto Analyst Reveal the Exact Crypto Wallet Setup He Wished He Had When Starting Out: https://CryptoVigilante.io/crypto101TCV Summit: “What Matters Most in Crypto” | https://dollarvigilante.spiffy.co/checkout/what-matters-most Replay videos available! The Crypto Vigilante (Follow on All Socials) The post Land of the Surveilled appeared first on The Crypto Vigilante.

In 2008, before the genesis block existed, Satoshi Nakamoto emailed Adam Back the Bitcoin whitepaper - the same paper that cites Back's Hashcash as a building block for proof-of-work.Today Adam Back is co-founder and CEO of Blockstream and CEO of Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company (BSTR). He joins Bitcoin Suisse to trace Bitcoin's arc from a cypherpunk experiment to a reserve asset that sovereigns and institutions now compete for - and to confront the debate that could define its next decade: the race to make Bitcoin quantum-secure.

Sal and Wayne Quinn are holding it down this week while Mark is on the road. Kurt Walker Jr., the world's first Bitcoin historian, joins the show to trace the full arc of crypto from David Chaum's eCash in the nineties all the way through the block size wars, the Silk Road takedown, and the deliberate hijacking of Bitcoin by banking interests tied to Jeffrey Epstein, Blockstream, and the Bilderberg group. If you think you know the history of Bitcoin, this conversation will change that. Sal and Wayne also break down decentralized identity, what it is, why it matters, and why a working version could be less than two years away. The conversation covers how blockchain based identity could replace government issued IDs, eliminate impersonation scams, and give individuals genuine control over what information they share and with whom. Mark's interview with Jay Noone of JayNoone.com rounds out the episode, covering life on a New Hampshire homestead, Man Camp, EMP proof vehicles, and why building a community of useful, valuable, and competent people is the real path to freedom. Sponsors: CakeWallet: cakewallet.com Trocador: trocador.app/sal Edge Wallet: edge.app/sal Firo: firo.org Zano: zano.org Dash: dash.org Pirate Chain: piratechain.com ThorChain: swap.thorchain.org Quai Network: qu.ai SALT Lending for more information email: SALT@MarkEdge.org #FreeTalkLive #MarkEdge #SalandMark #Bitcoin #BitcoinHistory #PrivacyCoins #Crypto #Firo #Monero #Dash #CakeWallet #Trocador #DecentralizedIdentity #NewHampshire #FreeStateProject #jaynoone

Sal and Wayne Quinn are holding it down this week while Mark is on the road. Kurt Walker Jr., the world's first Bitcoin historian, joins the show to trace the full arc of crypto from David Chaum's eCash in the nineties all the way through the block size wars, the Silk Road takedown, and the deliberate hijacking of Bitcoin by banking interests tied to Jeffrey Epstein, Blockstream, and the Bilderberg group. If you think you know the history of Bitcoin, this conversation will change that. Sal and Wayne also break down decentralized identity, what it is, why it matters, and why a working version could be less than two years away. The conversation covers how blockchain based identity could replace government issued IDs, eliminate impersonation scams, and give individuals genuine control over what information they share and with whom. Mark's interview with Jay Noone of JayNoone.com rounds out the episode, covering life on a New Hampshire homestead, Man Camp, EMP proof vehicles, and why building a community of useful, valuable, and competent people is the real path to freedom. Sponsors: CakeWallet: cakewallet.com Trocador: trocador.app/sal Edge Wallet: edge.app/sal Firo: firo.org Zano: zano.org Dash: dash.org Pirate Chain: piratechain.com ThorChain: swap.thorchain.org Quai Network: qu.ai SALT Lending for more information email: SALT@MarkEdge.org #FreeTalkLive #MarkEdge #SalandMark #Bitcoin #BitcoinHistory #PrivacyCoins #Crypto #Firo #Monero #Dash #CakeWallet #Trocador #DecentralizedIdentity #NewHampshire #FreeStateProject #jaynooneBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/heartland-newsfeed-radio-network--2904397/support.

Trump family made $2.3 BILLION in crypto profits while everyday investors lost nearly the SAME amount — Reuters EXPOSED the $TRUMP coin, World Liberty Financial & American Bitcoin playbook. Plus Bitcoin's worst week since FTX, Canada's $100M to Palestine & more.A bombshell Reuters investigation found the Trump family pocketed at least $2.3B across four crypto ventures — World Liberty Financial, the $TRUMP meme coin, ALT5 Sigma, and American Bitcoin — while buyers lost roughly the same, with the family risking virtually none of its own capital. We break it all down, then run the worst week in Bitcoin since the FTX collapse, a $20M token exploit, a 20-year U.S. BTC sell-ban bill, Monaco's 0% crypto tax, and a packed Notable North on Carney's Canada.In this episode of the Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast:

Trump family made $2.3 BILLION in crypto profits while everyday investors lost nearly the SAME amount — Reuters EXPOSED the $TRUMP coin, World Liberty Financial & American Bitcoin playbook. Plus Bitcoin's worst week since FTX, Canada's $100M to Palestine & more.A bombshell Reuters investigation found the Trump family pocketed at least $2.3B across four crypto ventures — World Liberty Financial, the $TRUMP meme coin, ALT5 Sigma, and American Bitcoin — while buyers lost roughly the same, with the family risking virtually none of its own capital. We break it all down, then run the worst week in Bitcoin since the FTX collapse, a $20M token exploit, a 20-year U.S. BTC sell-ban bill, Monaco's 0% crypto tax, and a packed Notable North on Carney's Canada.In this episode of the Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast:

A chainsaw refusing to cooperate. Trees that still need clearing. A biochar experiment that didn't go exactly as planned.And somehow, all of it led back to a bigger question: are we spending too much time watching the circus while ignoring the things that actually keep our lives running?In this episode, Brian talks through solar field progress, diagnosing and fixing a decade-old Husqvarna, the reality of learning through failed experiments, and why biochar might deserve a place on your homestead. The conversation wanders into Idiocracy, Roman parallels, floating solar projects, Bitcoin, Echo Radios stuck in transit, and the value of focusing on what you can actually control.This isn't a polished lecture. It's coffee-fueled thinking out loud from someone trying to build a life that's a little more independent and a little less dependent on systems that don't always deserve our trust.Affiliate links mentioned in this episode help support the show at no extra cost to you, including Blockstream, Fold, ComfreyRoots.com, Echo Radios, Amazon, and other partners that Brian personally uses or recommends.Settle in and listen to the whole ride. The best parts usually happen after the original topic is long gone.SUPPORT THE SHOW • Food Forest Farms Coffee – Use code LOTS10 for 10% off at https://foodforestfarms.com • Comfrey Roots: https://ComfreyRoots.com • Blockstream Jade Hardware Wallets: https://rewards.blockstream.com/thelotsproject • Fold Card: https://use.foldapp.com/r/FANEWETX • Amazon Storefront: https://amazon.com/shop/thelotsproject • Telegram Chat: https://t.me/LOTSChat

"Who's the founder of gold? We don't know." Adam Back explains why Bitcoin's missing founder is a feature, not a bug and why he thinks we may never learn who Satoshi really is. Along the way, the Blockstream CEO covers Bitcoin treasury companies, neobanks like River, and the incentive structure pulling individuals, companies, and governments toward Bitcoin. Use code BM10 to get 10% off Bitcoin 2027 Conference in Nashville: https://2027.b.tc

This week starts with cabin cleanup and a reality every builder eventually faces: everybody has advice and half of it contradicts the other half.I'm getting ready for flooring installation and trying to sort through the endless opinions on subfloor prep, skim coating, underlayment, and what actually matters versus what just costs more money.Then we dive into a surprisingly heated local debate about a new hotel selling day passes to its infinity pool. Great business idea? Maybe. Great experience for paying hotel guests? That's another question.We also spend time talking Bitcoin, Blockstream's new Jade Core wallet, Fold's growing ecosystem, and why price drops tend to create more opportunity than panic.If you enjoy practical projects, independent thinking, Bitcoin, and occasional rants about things that don't make sense, you'll probably enjoy this one.

In this episode of Bitcoin Brainstorm, Rod Roudi is joined by Cathie Wood, Adam Back, Hunter Beast, Rob Hamilton, Ren Crypto Fish, and David Puell for a deep discussion on quantum computing and its implications for Bitcoin. The group examines the technical, financial, and governance challenges posed by advances in quantum technology, while also exploring the progress being made on post-quantum cryptography and Bitcoin security research. From institutional concerns and custodial infrastructure to migration paths and consensus-building, the conversation highlights how developers, researchers, and investors are collaboratively addressing one of Bitcoin's most discussed long-term risks. Guests on this month's Bitcoin Brainstorm include: Cathie Wood: Founder, CEO and CIO at ARK Invest David Puell: Research Trading Analyst/Associate Portfolio Manager, Digital Assets, ARK InvestAdam Back: CEO, BlockstreamRen Crypto Fish: General Partner, Electric CapialRob Hamilton: Co-founder & CEO, AnchorWatchHunter Beast: Author, BIP360Rod Roudi: Founder, Bitcoin Park Key Points From This Episode: [00:00:00] Why quantum computing has become a major topic within Bitcoin discussions.[00:02:07] The role of Wright's Law and Moore's Law in estimating quantum progress.[00:04:38] Different quantum computing architectures and their implications for Bitcoin security.[00:05:58] Adam Back's overview of post-quantum signatures and Blockstream's research efforts.[00:06:55] How Bitcoin layer twos like Liquid are being used as testing grounds for quantum-resistant tools.[00:07:30] The trade-offs between signature size, speed, and security in post-quantum cryptography.[00:09:35] The importance of minimizing feature creep in Bitcoin upgrades.[00:11:41] Institutional investor concerns surrounding Bitcoin's quantum readiness.[00:22:28] Why Bitcoin developers favor conservative cryptographic approaches.[00:26:20] The collaborative nature of Bitcoin's open-source research ecosystem.[00:31:45] The distinction between long-range and short-range quantum attacks.[00:38:49] How custodians and hardware security module providers may need to prepare for migration.[00:45:35] Discussions around lost coins and the philosophical debate surrounding frozen or deprecated keys.[00:50:40] The importance of rough consensus within Bitcoin governance.[01:01:20] Why communication and investor education remain critical during this process. Learn more about Bitcoin Park: bitcoinpark.com Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com)

Almost 9 years since the big split of the Bitcoin community, it's time to learn more about how the Bitcoin Cash chain developed. Calin Culianu is the creator of Fulcrum, an efficient privacy-preserving SPV client. Steve Thurmond is the most ardent advocate for Cash Stamps: a convenient paper wallet system that's used for gifting. Throughout the episode, more BCH community members will join to have the conversation that you will never hear on any other Bitcoin podcast. Time stamps: 00:01:09 Introducing Calin Culianu & Steve Thurmond 00:02:37 The Evolution of Bitcoin Cash 00:03:59 Who is Behind Bitcoin Cash Now? 00:06:34 Narratives and Misconceptions 00:07:53 Vlad's Perspective on the Fork 00:09:44 Bitcoin's Capture and Speculative Nature 00:11:48 Vlad's Journey with Lightning Network 00:16:07 Blockstream and the "Banker" Conspiracy 00:18:33 The Security Budget Debate 00:22:12 The Problem with IOU Systems like Lightning 00:24:02 Vlad's Disappointment with Onboarding 00:24:58 Ethereum's Rise Amidst Bitcoin's Infighting 00:27:52 The Bankers Won, But Crypto Still Exists 00:32:16 The Future of Bitcoin and Firing Core Devs 00:33:08 The Wall of Consensus in BTC 00:39:19 The Multi-Coin Future 00:42:48 Bitcoin Cash's Development Philosophy 00:49:08 Craig Wright's Controversial Involvement 00:55:16 The Impact of Contentious Forks 00:58:55 The Resilience of Bitcoin Cash 01:02:32 The Value of Open Source Competition 01:08:51 Greg Maxwell's Influence 01:12:00 The Ecash fork 01:25:02 Introducing New BCH Community Members 01:26:38 Building Smart Contracts on Bitcoin Cash 01:34:06 Why UTXO is Better than EVM 01:40:07 Can You Run a BCH Node? 01:41:07 The Flawed "Run a Node" Narrative 01:53:27 The Dangers of RBF and the Importance of 0-Conf 02:05:07 One-Minute Blocks Proposal 02:08:02 Finality and User Experience in Wallets 02:12:13 The "It's Just Money, Bro" Philosophy 02:41:39 What Can You Buy with BCH? 02:48:28 The Permissionless Nature of BCH 02:52:12 The Paradox of Layer Twos 02:57:18 The Stigma of Building on BCH 02:58:21 The Changing Culture of Bitcoin Cash 03:11:35 Ordinals and the "Spam" Debate 03:17:07 Would BCH Still Have a Nice Dev Culture If Michael Saylor Started Buying? 03:28:14 Quantum Computing and Satoshi's Coins 03:42:59 The Tail Emission Debate 03:50:11 The Culture is the Ultimate Defense 03:53:16 The Politicization of Bitcoin Development 03:59:26 Privacy and Fungibility 04:02:21 The Future of Privacy on BCH 04:36:12 Fulcrum: An Electrum Server Implementation 04:38:54 The Litecoin Question 04:49:13 The Difficulty of Recreating Bitcoin's Genesis 04:51:38 The Long-Term Bet on SHA-256 04:54:12 A Break and Introduction to Rosco 05:48:33 CashScript and Smart Contracts on BCH 05:55:22 BCH vs. Ethereum Smart Contracts 06:03:05 The UTXO Stack and Abstraction Layers 06:43:30 The Avalanche Pre-Consensus Question 06:45:51 The "Tax" Fork 07:04:06 The Failed Attack on Bitcoin Cash 07:08:58 The 2018 Inflation Bug Disclosure 07:22:46 The Michael Saylor Phenomenon 07:28:41 The Arrest of Roger Ver 07:39:28 Spending Crypto in the Real World 07:44:22 The End of Crypto-Friendly Spaces in Europe 07:52:05 Prediction Markets and Community Sponsorship 08:08:17 Robin Linus is Jealous of BCH Opcodes 08:09:50 Final Thoughts and Conclusion

Jeffrey Epstein, cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Brock Pierce, Pierce's role in crypto, Steve Bannon, Pierce as sex offender, Tether, Epstein's relationship with Pierce, Blockstream, Adam Back, Epstein's links to Back, MIT Media Lab, the lab's role in crypto, Joichi Ito, Masha Prusakova, Epstein's use of influencers, Prusakova's links to crypto, David's encounters with this network, Zerocash, ZCash, Eli Ben-Sasson, Ryan Grim, Vincenzo Iozzo, Epstein's links to ZCash, Venezuela, Gabriel Jimenez, Reserve Right, the value of stablecoins to intelligence agencies, Coinbase and Epstein's ties, the Mt. Gox takedown in relation to Coinbase, Brock Pierce's role in linking Epstein up with Coinbase, Coinbase's promotion of far right politics, Howard Lutnick, Cantor Fitzgerald, Cantor Fitzgerald's stake in Tether, Donald Trump, the political agenda behind Epstein's involvement in crypto, Robert Maxwell, PROMIS and Israel's backdoor, the Israeli/Mossad connections around Epstein's crypto ventures, did the Mossad put a backdoor in crypto?ResourcesDrop Site News articles:https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-recruited-nsa-codebreakers-genome-russia-skolkovo-bill-gates-mithttps://www.dropsitenews.com/p/epstein-iran-treasury-cryptocurrency-bitcoinDavid's The Verge article:https://www.theverge.com/tech/885252/jeffrey-epstein-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-connectionsMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

He invented the proof-of-work system that made Bitcoin possible, was one of the last people Satoshi ever contacted, and now runs one of the most important infrastructure companies in the space. Adam Back sits down to explain why we're still in the early innings of institutional adoption, reveals what Blockstream is quietly building to protect Bitcoin from quantum computing, and shares why the recent wave of DeFi hacks and restaking collapses is exactly what the cypherpunks warned about from the beginning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A bi-weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOBAll aboard the vibe trainFTF with Max TQ got some holidays coming upKeonne appealNEWSBisq v1 trade protocol exploit: 11.59 BTC drained, fully reimbursed, hardening shipped in 1.10.0 (bisq.community PSA, Bisq on X, reimbursement plan on GitHub)Disclosed: 2026-05-01Bisq's v1 trade protocol had a missing validation check on taker-side input. Because maker and taker were supposed to use the same miner fee, a malicious taker could push a bad fee value through the transaction math and shrink the multisig output to 0.001 BTC while sweeping the rest into the taker's change. Attacker drained 11.59 BTC from 10 users, all on altcoin trades. Maintainer Henrik Jannsen filed a reimbursement plan on GitHub on May 3, payouts in BTC (with BSQ as optional), DAO vote scheduled around May 25. The hotfix landed as Bisq 1.10.0 on 2026-05-16 with broader hardening: trade protocol checks, network message validation, release verification, supply-chain hardening. The Bisq team explicitly flagged the incident as a likely AI-assisted exploit, though they did not detail how AI was used.Sterlingov Appeal: The Criminalization of Privacy (therage.co)Published: 2026-05-12The appellate court reviewing Roman Sterlingov's Bitcoin Fog conviction openly suggested that mixers remain "legal in theory but not practice" once criminals use them. Judges questioned whether running an internationally accessible service forces compliance with every jurisdiction's licensing regime.Pro-law-enforcement CLARITY Act advances out of Senate Banking (therage.co)Published: 2026-05-15The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act passed committee with expanded surveillance provisions: Bank Secrecy Act integration sixteen times over, new PATRIOT Act special measures. Privacy advocates flagged the breadth of data collection on Americans who haven't done anything.CVE-2024-52911 disclosed in Bitcoin Optech #405, fix has been in Bitcoin Core 29.0+ since release (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/05/15/)Published: 2026-05-05Use-after-free in parallel script validation between Bitcoin Core 0.14.0 and 28.x. Required attacker-supplied proof-of-work, so practical attack window was narrow, but the bug sat unannounced across many versions.Bitcoin Knots 29.3 enables BIP-110, fork-off countdown started (release notes) + Lopp's countdownPublished: 2026-05-09 (release)Knots 29.3 ships RDTS soft-fork enforcement on by default. Nodes running Knots with this flag set will fork off the network in August unless they change behaviour. Lopp set up a countdown.Bybit exploit post-mortem (Blockstream): enterprise multisig + hardware wallets did not save them (blog.blockstream.com)Published: 2026-05 (week of 5-12)$1.5B drained despite multisig and hardware. Failure was process, not key custody, a UI / signing-flow compromise.Poland passes EU MiCA-aligned crypto bill while Zondacrypto fraud probe deepens (bitcoinmagazine.com)Published: 2026-05-15Polish lawmakers ratified the MiCA framework ahead of the July EU deadline. The vote landed alongside an investigation into Zondacrypto's collapse, roughly $96M of user losses, with Prime Minister Tusk floating possible foreign-influence angles.Claude helps retrieve lost 5BTCX user 'CPRKRN' has Claude check over whole file system and match a wallet file to an old passwordSpiral and Block ship Loupe, an AI-powered vulnerability scanner for open-source Bitcoin (spiralbtc.substack.com)Published: 2026-05-12Uses LLMS to surface security weaknesses in code repositories and requires demonstrable test cases for any vulnerability report so false positives are minimised. Spiral and Block are funding scans themselves; reports go to maintainers confidentially before any public disclosure.RELEASESBitcoin Core 31.0 (release index entry) — 2026-05-12Operator review required before production rollout. Major version landing.Bitcoin Knots v29.3.knots20260508 — 2026-05-09RDTS soft-fork enforcement on by default, fork-off risk in August. New configuration changes, bug fixes.Core Lightning v26.06rc1 — 2026-05-12Adds graceful command for clean shutdown, new sendamount RPC, BOLT12 payer-proof support, plus 211 commits since v26.04.Bitkey App 2026.9.1 — 2026-05-15Security patch from Block.Trezor Suite v26.5.1 — 2026-05-15Legacy labeling migration, WalletConnect insufficient-balance warnings, side-by-side trade comparisons, new DeFi Tokens section.BitBoxApp v4.51.0 — 2026-05-12Bundles BitBox02 firmware v9.26.1, address formatting in 4-char groups, iOS haptic feedback on charts, account-summary perf.Ledger Live Desktop 4.4.0 — 2026-05-13Hardens Live App handling of external-protocol URLs (itms-apps:, ms-word:, file:, etc.) across Chromium navigation vectors.Ledger Live Mobile 4.4.0 — 2026-05-13Adds an addresses section to asset detail screens, device-card management menus with removal confirmations.Bull Bitcoin Mobile v6.10.1 — 2026-05-18Onboarding redirect fix on wallet creation failure.Bull Bitcoin Mobile v6.10.0 — 2026-05-11Major release: Ledger hardware-wallet integration, FSS hybrid storage strategy, real-time WebSocket notifications, new onboarding wizard, Payjoin privacy enhancements, 11 new translations.Bull Bitcoin Mobile v6.9.101-Internal-Release (display name v6.9.108-Internal) — 2026-05-09Pre-6.10.0 testing build, Android migration / startup wizard / secure storage fixes.Bitcoin Safe 2.0.0rc0 — 2026-05-17Comprehensive redesign of the wallet setup wizard, added support for Coldcard mk5 and Trezor 7, plugin architecture via external repos, fiat-balance category column.Sparrow Frigate 1.5.0 — 2026-05-14Low-latency mempool ingestion via Bitcoin Core's ZMQ sequence publisher, auto-discovers the bitcoind ZMQ endpoint when unconfigured. Useful for operators running Sparrow Frigate alongside Core.Blockstream Green iOS release_5.4.0 — 2026-05-11Aggregate fiat balance across all wallet assets, updated Send flow for Lightning, migrates Lightning backend from Breez to Greenlight (Blockstream's own LSP).Blockstream Green Android release_5.4.0 — 2026-05-08Same redesign as iOS: aggregate fiat balance, redesigned Send flow (recipient → asset → account), transaction pagination, also the Breez-to-Greenlight migration.Blockstream Green Desktop 3.3.0 — 2026-05-06Total fiat balance in wallet header, AMP ID exposed in settings, GDK 0.77.3, Qt 6.11.0, Wayland fixes.Peach Bitcoin 0.69.0 (build 346) — 2026-05-06Signature validation for backed-up payment details, encrypts custom refund addresses, removes invalid backed-up data.Peach Bitcoin 0.69.0 (build 345) — 2026-05-05Percentage filtering on offers, encrypted server backup syncing for payment methods, advanced offer-creation options, GrapheneOS camera-permission fix, Buy Offer creation restricted to experienced users.ZEUS v13.0.2-rc3 — 2026-05-18Third RC for 13.0.2. New RGS server at rgs.zeusln.com providing graph updates every 15 minutes instead of every three hours. Clipboard and NFC UX improvements.ZEUS v13.0.1 — 2026-05-07Stable release: fixes recovering Embedded LND wallets from seed (was stalling out), payment retry logic, false-positive offline detection. Cashu token sweeping to self-custody continues to land.Alby Hub v1.22.2 "Marc Horowitz" — 2026-05-11Adds Core Lightning support (their most-requested feature), new AI & Agents page, integrated on-chain wallet mode, custom transaction labels, redesigned settings, improved budget selection for app connections.Boltz Backend 3.13.0 — 2026-05-08Full Arkade swap support, EVM commitment-swap lockup flow, multi-LND support in backend and sidecar.Boltz Client 2.12.0 — 2026-05-12Final removal of the GDK wallet library.Arkade arkd v0.9.5 — 2026-05-11Client-lib wallet interface updates, breaking-changes documentation, single-key wallet signing fixes.Arkade TS SDK v0.4.25 — 2026-05-07Maintenance bump for the Arkade JavaScript SDK.NodeGuard 0.24.2 — 2026-05-14Fixes invoice-expiry calculation in rebalance flows. Check logs if rebalance operations have been timing out.ThunderHub v0.18.3 — 2026-05-15Bug-fix release in the 0.18.x line. (Subsequent 0.18.1-0.18.3 are CI/docker polish after the headline 0.18.0.)ThunderHub v0.18.0 — 2026-05-05Adds Taproot Assets support to the dashboard. The actual show story for ThunderHub this fortnight.Blink Mobile 2.4.44 — 2026-05-06Upgrades protobufjs (CVE-2026-41242 mitigation). Security patch.Fedimint SDK canary release — 2026-05-14React Native transport fix, persistent callback, RPC payload flattening. Canary channel.umbrelOS 1.7.3 — 2026-05-12DirtyFrag security patches: CVE-2026-43284 + CVE-2026-43500 in the Linux kernel. Mandatory.umbrelOS 1.7.2 — 2026-05-05CopyFail patch: CVE-2026-31431 in the Linux kernel. Mandatory.Tails 7.7.3 — 2026-05-12Emergency release: critical Linux kernel CVE fix (kernel 6.12.86 ships the Dirty Frag fix), plus Tor Browser and Tor client security fixes.Whirlpool Observer…

Jeremy Rubin is the author of BIP 119 (OP_CTV, Check Template Verify) and co-author of BIP 348 (CSFS, Check Sig From Stack). More recently, he started working on Char: a decentralized shared sequencer for Bitcoin layer 2s. In this episode, which we recorded at the LayerTwo Labs booth during the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas, we talk about the challenges involved in improving Bitcoin and why Jeremy chooses to be a relentless builder even in an adversarial environment. Time stamps: 00:00:48 Podcast Introduction and Sponsors 00:03:02 Jeremy Rubin's Bitcoin Journey 00:03:24 Introduction to Check Template Verify (CTV) 00:04:44 The Philosophy Behind CTV 00:06:40 CTV for Congestion Control 00:07:57 CTV for Self-Custody Vaults 00:09:35 The Failed Activation of CTV 00:11:25 The "Technical Consensus" Debate 00:13:45 FUD and Misinformation Campaign 00:17:45 Blockstream's Role in Bitcoin Development 00:21:44 The Inevitability of CTV 00:26:04 The State of the Bitcoin Ecosystem 00:28:20 Bitcoin Maximalism and Cypherpunk Spirit 00:29:34 Learning from Other Projects 00:31:52 Bitcoin Cash's Technical Progress 00:35:39 The "Small Blocker" Paradox 00:37:34 Cultural Barriers to Building 00:39:24 The Future of Bitcoin and Freedom 00:43:08 Paul Sztorc's Ecash Fork 00:49:06 Confiscating Satoshi's Coins 00:58:51 The Problem with OP_CAT 01:01:56 Security Practices at Conferences 01:06:01 What Excites Jeremy About Bitcoin Today 01:09:01 On Being a "Difficult" Personality 01:12:20 Introduction to Char 01:15:04 Why Use Proof of Stake? 01:18:38 Final Thoughts on Agency and Freedom

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AOBPrime Time reminderVibe codingVegas recapZach PanelQ panel (video not up yet)NEWSVegas Product AnnouncementsBlock launched a new Bitkey hardware wallet with a secure touchscreen and 2-of-3 multisig that removes the need for seed phrases, tying transaction verification directly to the device screen (Bitcoin Magazine).Blockstream released Jade Core, an entry-level open-source hardware wallet with Bluetooth pairing, offline signing, and Blind Oracle PIN protection (Bitcoin Magazine).Lightspark became a Visa principal member and unveiled Grid Global Accounts, connecting Bitcoin-based payments to 175M Visa merchants across 33 countries with plans to reach 100 by year-end (news.bitcoin.com).Block demoed Square NFC tap-to-pay for Bitcoin settled over the Lightning Network with 0% processing fees through 2026, with 800,000+ Square merchants already auto-enrolled (block.xyz).Aven unveiled a Bitcoin-backed Visa credit card with revolving credit lines from $1K to $1M starting at 7.99% APR, 2% cash back, and BitGo custody (GreekReporter).Cash App rolled out auto-conversion of P2P payments into Bitcoin, a 5% Bitcoin Back rewards program at Square merchants, and 5x higher withdrawal limits ($10K/day, $25K/week) (block.xyz).Tether Investments proposed a three-way merger of Twenty One Capital, Strike, and Elektron Energy to combine treasury, mining, lending, and capital markets, with Elektron contributing roughly 5% of global hashrate (BM).Sztorc eCash ForkTopic: Paul Sztorc announced a Bitcoin hard fork called "eCash" set for August 2026 (block 964,000). Copies Bitcoin's ledger but reassigns ~500,000 of Satoshi's forked coins to early investors. 80-85% negative community reaction.Posted: April 24-28, 2026LinkDOJ "Developer Exemptions" Announced at Bitcoin 2026 - But Are They Real?Published: April 27-28, 2026Sources: The Rage | Crypto.newsSummary: Acting AG Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel told Bitcoin 2026 that developers who write code without "knowingly" helping criminals will not be charged. Blanche claimed the DOJ has "fundamentally changed the game" and ended "regulation by prosecution." L0la L33tz at The Rage argues the exemption is performative - the government's existing cases treat receiving a complaint email or reading a news article about misuse as sufficient "knowledge."Keonne Rodriguez Writes from Prison - "Letter #6: Two Years In"Published: April 25, 2026Sources: The Rage | Reason MagazineSummary: Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez published his sixth letter from federal prison, marking two years since his arrest. He's serving 5 years for conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business. Trump said he would "look into" a pardon but has taken no action.Tornado Cash Retrial: DOJ Pushes for October DatePublished: Ongoing (retrial proposed October 2026)Sources: The Rage (April 22)Summary: Prosecutors are pushing for an October 2026 retrial of Roman Storm on money laundering and sanctions charges after a jury deadlocked in August 2025. Storm was convicted on the unlicensed money transmitter charge but the jury couldn't agree on the two more serious counts (up to 40 years combined).Vercel Hack Exposes Crypto Infrastructure Supply Chain RiskPublished: April 20, 2026Source: LINKSummary: Vercel disclosed a breach traced to a compromised Google Workspace connection through a third-party AI tool (Context.ai). The hack exposed environment variables and API keys for numerous Web3 projects. Solana DEX Orca confirmed it rotated all deployment credentials. A cybercrime forum post claimed to be selling Vercel data for $2M.BIP47DBPublished: May 3, 2026Source: LINKSummary: An open protocol for inscribing BIP47 reusable payment codes onto the Bitcoin blockchain using Ordinals inscriptions with compressed binary encoding. The protocol creates a decentralised, censorship-resistant, and publicly verifiable directory of payment codes that eliminates single points of failure in the PayNym ecosystem. Anyone may write to the directory, and all entries are client-side verifiable against the secp256k1 curve.RELEASESZeus v13.0.0 - April 27, 2026Major release: new "node in the phone" using LDK Node, redesigned onboarding, embedded LND channel migration preserving existing channels, Cashu protocol rewrite with offline transaction capabilities, embedded LND upgraded to v0.20.1-beta, revamped amount input with currency selection, Cashu mint review via Nostr social graph, ZEUS Pay+ custom profiles, Android stealth mode. Over 100 merged PRs.Release linkMempool v3.3.0 - April 21, 2026Major release: taproot script tree visualization, sighash highlighting, stale block comparisons, annexes support, sub-1-sat/vB transaction handling, ephemeral dust support, PSBT signature display, Liquid Simplicity support, new API endpoints, Angular framework upgrade. v3.3.1 hotfix same day.Release linkUmbrel 1.7.0 / 1.7.1 - April 27-28, 2026Home screen shortcuts, built-in text editor in Files, advanced networking (hostname customization, static IP), network sharing for external USB drives, 17 new languages. v1.7.1 fixed a false storage error on restart.Release linkBTCPay Server v2.3.8 / v2.3.9 - April 23-24, 2026v2.3.8: Enhanced subscription management with new API routes, improved POS QR code login, LUD-21 support for LNURL-pay verification. v2.3.9: Patch fixing server recovery after plugin crashes and xpub parsing issue.Release linkBULL Bitcoin v6.9.1 - April 21, 2026FSS10 migration fallback for Android, Colombia (COP) deposit support, real-time WebSocket notifications, 11 new languages, Ledger hardware wallet support. Extensive bug fixes.Release linkEnvoy v2.2.14 - April 23, 2026Hardened iOS Bluetooth connectivity, fixes for Passport Prime account display, Magic Backup bug fixes, coin control/fee flow improvements, updated translations.Release linkCake Wallet v6.1.0 / v6.1.2 - April 20-23, 2026Native USDT bridging between Ethereum, Polygon, and Arbitrum. Optimized core engine, improved multi-chain wallet stability, Lightning invoice generation and EVM connectivity fixes.Release linkStart9 v0.4.0-beta.7 - April 29, 2026Beta for the complete StartOS rewrite. Tunnel design refinements, backup reliability fixes with rsync and CIFS support, improved TCP connection timeouts in reverse proxy. Requires careful update process.Release linkLNbits v1.5.4 - April 23, 2026Ability for operators to cap number of users or extensions per instance. AppImage installation fix. UI fixes, QR code optimization, webhook error handling.Release linkDojo v1.29.1 - April 27, 2026Patch reverting a bitcoinjs dependency update that caused block sync to stall. Dependency reversion and lockfile updates.Release linkBitkey - April 19-26, 2026Three app releases shipped (2026.5.0, 2026.6.0, 2026.7.0). 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Good Sunday to you,It seems Iran is planning to turn the Strait of Hormuz into the marine equivalent a toll road, or so at least the Financial Times among others is reporting. Ships wishing to pass through the strait must pay a fee of $1 per barrel of oil.Here's the clincher: the fee must be paid in bitcoin.Why bitcoin? It's the best money for the job.As it is “permissionless”, no government can order the funds to be frozen or seized. No bank can block the transaction. There is no intermediary. It is outside geopolitical control. Transactions can be made remotely and digitally. Settlement is within minutes. Ownership is clear. The network is sufficiently liquid.No other widely used currency or payment system in existence has these qualities. Not the dollar, not the euro, not gold or silver, not stablecoins.Suddenly bitcoin has become “a tool to navigate a global conflict', in the words of bitcoiner Jesse Tevelow.A particular company might not like Iran. Iran might not like the company. Neither might trust the other. The two can still transact. Trade can happen between parties that don't like or trust each other. Trade can also happen outside of politics.Every bitcoiner has known for some time such a moment was coming. It was just a matter of when. If this is enforced, it would mark the first real-world use of bitcoin as neutral settlement infrastructure in a live geopolitical conflict, where traditional systems cannot operate.Obviously this only works if Iran can enforce it, and the Strait is not only Iran's. This is currently only a contingency situation and, if this conflict ends, habits may quickly revert.There is the other possibility that it does work. Indeed it works so well other nations start copying.The BRICS nations, for example, might find bitcoin an extremely useful non-US-dollar currency in which to transact.In which case, this sets a precedent.My view: the world just changed.At the other end of the scale, we have my little lifeAnd the same problem - fiat inadequacy - presents itself though rather more mundane circumstances.I've been travelling through Namibia this past fortnight, on my way to give a speech at the Cirrus Investment Conference.When I arrived at the airport, I couldn't get my card to work in the ATM machine, but I had £200 in cash which I changed - no doubt at some over-priced rate - for local dollars. This was the only cash I had.I've been staying at various lodges across the country, all in the middle of nowhere, and I have had a terrific time, but I've needed money to tip my various guides, lodge staff, drivers and so on, but with no access to cash.The banking system didn't work. The card failed. Cash was finite. The people I wanted to tip couldn't take card payments. We still wanted to transact.So I've been using the opportunity to orange pill the locals. Instead of local dollars (which by the way is pegged to the South African rand), I've got every member of staff to download a wallet onto their phone, and I've tipped them in bitcoin. Everyone so far has been delighted at the arrangement, and the locals now have some money that might appreciate in purchasing power. I've told them to HODL their coins for at least 5 years and then perhaps this little tip might be worth something.In the meantime I've told them to read up on bitcoin - watch vids, listen to podcasts and so on.As I argue in the book the first step on the bitcoin journey is to download a wallet and practice sending and receiving small amounts of money.So you have the same function at two extremes: bitcoin works where other forms of money fall short.Once again I urge you to have some exposure to this extraordinary tech. ETFs are the simplest way - but they are far from permissionless, as anyone dealing with the FCA will tell you. Charlie Morris's BOLD is another option and one I some in my own portfolio.On which note, I heartily endorse Charlie's various newsletters, which you can read here. But the best way to start with bitcoin is to sign up to an exchange and buy twenty quid's worth.Here's a little story for you.About ten years ago, around the time I wrote Bitcoin: the Future of Money?, I was at the Port Eliot festival in Cornwall where the internet signal is bad, or was back then. “Accepting bitcoin” it said on one of the little cafe vans. “What's bitcoin?” a mate standing next to me in the queue said. I told him, sent him a fiver's worth and told him to use it to buy us each a coffee.The bloke selling the coffee couldn't get a proper signal on his phone, other people in the queue were getting impatient and so my mate paid in cash and we both forgot about the bitcoins.Several years later when bitcoin went on one its runs my mate messaged me. “Hey, you remember those bitcoins? Well I got out my old phone, retrieved the wallet, sold them and bought myself a car.”It wasn't a Ferrari or anything like that. Just some second-hand family motor, but even so quite the gain.I doubt those tips will get the Namibian locals a car, but you never know.Why Adam Back is not Satoshi NakamotoFinally, there was a big story in the New York Times this week arguing that cypherpunk coder Adam Back is Satoshi Nakamoto. Author John Carreyrou spent over a year on the story, but I'm afraid - and I've been there - he suffers from a terrible case of Prosecutor's Bias. He has decided who he thinks Satoshi is and then found coincidence after to fits the story.If you've read the book, you'll know Adam Back was a prime candidate, but one that was easy to discount, because he wrote in a different coding language - C - to Satoshi, who wrote in C++. Indeed, Satoshi came to Back for advice on the White Paper, which Back gave him (you can read the email correspondence). Meanwhile, Back then only came to bitcoin relatively late, in 2013 - and set up Blockstream almost as a catch-up play, which he wouldn't have bothered doing if he was Satoshi who at this point was worth a 9-figure sum.I wrote a thread on X about it, retweeted by Adam Back himself - so it may be of some interest.Here is this week's commentary:Thanks for being a subscriber to the Flying Frisby.Until next time,DominicPS Bitcoin: the Future of Money? is available at Amazon and all good bookshops. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com/subscribe

Bitcoin's Satoshi drama heats up again as a major journalistic “reveal” drops, just as the crypto industry gets rocked by a quantum computing breakthrough that pulls up security timelines—and AI-powered exploits are suddenly real. We break down Satoshi theories, Blockstream PR whispers, the new quantum risk landscape, Ethereum vs. Bitcoin migration pain, and why your favorite protocols might not be ready for North Korea or superintelligent bug finders. Welcome to The Chopping Block — where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest in crypto. This week we're joined by Justin Drake, Ethereum Foundation researcher and the internet's favorite quantum attack alarm bell ringer. Things get spicy immediately: the eternal guessing game “Who is Satoshi?” gets a new round of attention as John Carreyrou (yeah, Theranos guy) drops a supposed expose pointing his finger at none other than Blockstream's Adam Back.  The crew debates whether this Satoshi story is tired PR, inside baseball, or a genuine existential turning point for Bitcoin culture. Then things escalate: Justin walks us through Google and Atomic's quantum computing breakthrough—a real, validated step forward that potentially pulls the “Q-day” clock up to as soon as 2029. The implications? Bitcoin and Ethereum's security models are suddenly under the gun, and community denial is in full effect. Who's better poised to survive a quantum apocalypse… and is coin burning on the menu for Satoshi's stash? Later, we break down the Drift hack—North Korea's latest state-level heist, featuring IRL social engineering that sounds like Mr. Robot meets Oceans Eleven. Finally, it's an AI arms race: Anthropic's Mythos model is reportedly the most dangerous security researcher ever coded, and it's already quietly hardening corporate fortresses.  Panic? Prepare? Both? One thing's for sure—there are no do-overs on the blockchain, so let's get into it. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pods, Fountain, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights