Bitcoin Brief
The Bitcoin Patch Wave Is Here
BTCPay Server issued release-candidate security guidance, Fedimint shipped stable fixes, and Core Lightning is preparing a point release.
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Bitcoin Brief
Your Bitcoin Miners Are High-Value Networked Computers
The 256 Red Team is auditing the closed and third-party firmware controlling Bitcoin mining fleets. Operators should treat miners like high-value networked computers.
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Bitcoin Brief
Stop Taxing Inflation as a Capital Gain
July CPI remained elevated. The government should stop taxing inflation-created nominal gains as real wealth.
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America Is Throttling the Defenders Who Protect Bitcoin
Criminals will use unrestricted AI tools whether compliant users are allowed to or not. Bitcoin's defenders should have access to the same capabilities.
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BIP-110 Hit Its Mandatory-Signaling Height. Bitcoin's Hashrate Did Not Follow.
BIP-110's mandatory-signaling period began at block 961,632. Bitcoin's dominant chain did not follow, and Luke Dashjr is now discussing a new proof-of-work algorithm.
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Bitcoin's Red Team Hit the Outreach Wall
Bitcoin's Red Team logged 1,029 high-or-critical findings across 425 projects in 55 hours. Now comes the hard part: reproducing the bugs and reaching the maintainers.
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Bitcoin Brief
The COLDCARD Attackers Left More Than a Blockchain Trail
The COLDCARD theft is one front in the industrialization of cyber offense. The next race is to identify the attackers and harden every exposed system.
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Texas Just Put 474 Gigawatts of Data Center Requests on Trial
Texas is auditing more than 474 gigawatts of interconnection requests, approximately 90% from data centers, as the AI buildout runs into power, grid, and construction constraints.
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The COLDCARD Disaster Has Reached Nine Figures
Galaxy now tracks 1,596 BTC stolen from roughly 7,300 addresses while new evidence raises deeper questions about how COLDCARD's weak-entropy failure survived for years.
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COLDCARD's RNG Failed. Move Your Coins.
An urgent warning for anyone whose seed was generated on affected COLDCARD firmware. Updating the device will not repair the seed. Generate a new one and migrate carefully.
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Bitcoin Brief
The Fed Paused. The Bond Market Did Not.
The Fed held rates steady. The front end relaxed, the long end revolted, stocks rolled over, and the monetary trap got tighter.
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Bitcoin's Liquidity Winter Is Not Over Yet
Michael Howell says the global-liquidity cycle peaked in 2025 and may remain a headwind for months. Bitcoin's monetary case can survive a brutal liquidity winter.
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New York Is Building the Store and the List
New York is subsidizing groceries while building a property-tax target roll. Britain offers the warning: wealth exits when socialist incentives stop working.
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Fedwire Shows What Bitcoin Is Actually Competing With
Fedwire settled $1.148 quadrillion in 2025 using a few trillion dollars of reserve balances. Bitcoin is competing with that monetary base layer, not Visa.
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DeepSeek Is Playing the Long Game
DeepSeek is treating compute scarcity as an engineering constraint, open weights as a strategy, and AGI as a long game. American frontier labs should study the posture instead of d…
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You Can't Have Capitalism When the Money Is Corrupted
Private markets still exist, but they operate beneath a politically managed credit system that socializes losses, funds political allocation, and corrupts capitalism's most importa…
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AI Just Got 10x More Efficient. It Will Need More Power.
Vera Rubin produced up to 10x more DeepSeek-R1 tokens per megawatt. Cheaper intelligence will increase total power demand and reprice every chip already installed.
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Bitcoin Brief
Put America Back on the Henry Adams Curve
America broke from two centuries of rising energy use per person. Bitcoin miners and AI datacenters are exposing the scarcity we chose to build.
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Hugging Face Was Breached by an Autonomous AI Agent Swarm
An AI-agent swarm breached Hugging Face. Its defenders then learned why critical organizations need models they can run and control themselves.
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Private Credit's Exit Door Is Jammed
Investors asked private-credit funds for far more liquidity than the wrappers were built to provide. The structures are functioning as written, and the terms reveal how narrow the…
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