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Oshi analyzed 40,000+ customers across 7 merchants and found Bitcoin loyalty members spend 3x more with 66% repeat rates. Every $1 in BTC rewards returns $10+. Plus BTC breaks $80K…
Cashu creator Calle announces non-custodial ecash mints via hardware enclaves. Plus: Taiwan BTC reserve paper, Brent at $126, BOJ hawkish split, private credit exodus.
Block hits 800K merchants accepting bitcoin. Aven launches BTC-backed credit up to $1M. Acting AG Blanche: no more regulating by prosecution. Plus the Musk v. Altman trial begins.
Bitcoin follows a power law with a 96% R-squared fit over seven years. Traditional markets grow exponentially at 7-10% per year. At some point, these two curves cross. Matthew Mezi…
Tether froze $344M in USDT on Tron in coordination with OFAC. BlackRock adds $900M in BTC. BOJ studies US private credit contagion. UK courts approve nationwide facial recognition.
Bitcoin is up 22% since the Iran war started. Bears are paying 6% annualized to stay short. Funding rates have been negative for 46 straight days. This is the most hated rally in B…
Arbitrum's Security Council unilaterally froze $90M in stolen ETH overnight, proving DeFi is decentralized in name only. Plus: BlackRock gates a $26B fund, Bitcoin Core v31.0 ships…
A $292M bridge exploit at Kelp DAO cascaded into $13 billion in DeFi withdrawals, $196M in Aave bad debt, and frozen markets across a dozen protocols. Bitcoin's simplicity is the f…
BitMEX Research proposes a 'canary fund' alternative to BIP-361's coin freeze. Only trigger quantum protections when an attacker proves the threat exists on-chain.
A new BIP proposes freezing any Bitcoin that doesn't migrate to post-quantum addresses. Plus Goldman files a Bitcoin income ETF, CRE cracks widen, and whales accumulate.
The Bitcoin community lost Aaron Ingalls this weekend. A father, a Bitcoiner, a fighter. Plus: tankers test the Hormuz blockade, Tether launches a self-custodial wallet, and energy…
Vance walks away from Islamabad with nothing. Oil rips past $105, CMBS delinquencies hit COVID highs, and Bitcoin holds $71K. Plus: White House torpedoes the banking lobby's stable…
Ten31's John Arnold argues the stablecoin gold rush will not accrue value to public blockchains. Plus: March CPI prints 3.3%, Carlyle gates a $7B private credit fund, Ro Khanna's A…
Iran demands bitcoin tolls at the Strait of Hormuz. When finality matters, hashrate wins. Plus: China's CBDC falters, CMBS delinquencies hit COVID highs, and mining tariffs threate…
Criminals are posing as delivery drivers to rob bitcoiners at gunpoint. California has seen a surge of violent home invasions. Geographically distributed multisig makes these attac…
Tyler Oliveira's viral documentary exposes H-1B ghost offices in Frisco, TX. CheckOnChain shows bear market bottoming signals. Fed sits on 44B losses while banks report earnings.
An independent research firm sent an analyst into the Strait of Hormuz during active conflict. The finding: Iran is running a functional toll booth, not a blockade. 15+ ships cross…
OpenAI's acquisition of TBPN reveals the playbook for media in the age of AI. WTI crude settles above $103 for the first time since 2022. The FBI confirmed it buys Americans' data…
Jonas Nick's SHRIMPS achieves 2.5 KB quantum-proof signatures for Bitcoin. BofA warns inflation heading to 4%. Powell signals no rate hikes. The positioning squeeze hits $184B in s…
Google Quantum AI research shows Bitcoin's ECDSA could be cracked with fewer than 1,200 logical qubits, executable in minutes. But Bitcoin developers are already shipping post-quan…
