Stop #318 - Verify Without Seeing
Shielded Bitcoin aims to make payments private without changing consensus. The proposal’s credibility will also be measured by the ability to recover one’s own bitcoin.
vor 3 Wochen3 w ago9 Min.9 min
Federico Rivi
#Bitcoin Journalist | ATLAS21 Editor-in-Chief - Learn your way out of fiat
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Stop #316 - The Layer 2 Apocalypse
Liquid has lost its credibility. Spark and Ark still demand heavy compromises from those who want to pay with bitcoin. Phoenix is the exception; for custody, the solid foundation remains on-chain.
vor 1 Mon.1 mo ago8 Min.8 min
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Stop #313 - Spark: conditional self-custody
Spark is being adopted by many Lightning-enabled wallets, but can it really be considered trustless? Not quite. Here's why.
vor 1 Mon.1 mo ago11 Min.11 min
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Stop #314 - How mining paves the way for AI
According to Gridless, a kWh allocated to AI can generate up to 25 times as much as one allocated to mining, and capital is following the margin. Bitcoin remains the buyer that makes the first watt financeable.
vor 1 Mon.1 mo ago8 Min.8 min
Stop #311 - Coldcard and the new AI paradigm
A five-year-old bug made thousands of seed phrases generated by Coldcard wallets guessable. Open-weights artificial intelligence is already changing the world of computing
vor 2 Mon.2 mo ago7 Min.7 min
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Stop #310 - The Best Advertisement for Bitcoin
The two sworn enemies of American politics have found the one thing they can shake hands on: abolishing the last limit, already a fake one, on debt growth. A free ad for Bitcoin.
vor 2 Mon.2 mo ago7 Min.7 min
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Stop #308 - The Guilty Victim
Mario Roggero's conviction - Italy's biggest news lately - is positive law applied to the letter. How would his case be judged in a free society?
vor 3 Mon.3 mo ago7 Min.7 min
Stop #306 - Presidential Oxymoron
Trump declares $1.4 billion in digital asset income in his first year in office. But "Bitcoin president" is a contradiction as big as a house
vor 3 Mon.3 mo ago7 Min.7 min
Stop #305 - The Regulator's Barrier
Binance withdraws from the European Union after the ECB allegedly pushed Greece to reject its license. The regulator calls what is actually a barrier to entry consumer protection.
vor 3 Mon.3 mo ago8 Min.8 min
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Stop #303 - The Attack Surface
Artificial intelligence is breaking software that had resisted for decades and one shitcoin after another. Bitcoin remains intact and the reason is the very thing they have criticized it for over the years
vor 4 Mon.4 mo ago7 Min.7 min
Stop #302 - Open Letter to the Disillusioned
The price of bitcoin is at its lows, the Fear & Greed Index reads 11 out of 100, and capital is rushing toward the IPOs of SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Amid the panic, it is necessary to anchor oneself to the fundamentals
vor 4 Mon.4 mo ago8 Min.8 min
Stop #301 - Nothing is more permanent than the temporary
Bitcoin Mechanic defends BIP 110 as a surgical cleanup of Bitcoin with an expiration date. But the only permanent effect would be a very dangerous precedent: an unacceptable moral blackmail
vor 4 Mon.4 mo ago7 Min.7 min
Stop #299 - The American Clarification
The Clarity Act opens the door to digital assets for institutions. Bitcoin is not directly involved, but it could benefit in terms of institutional access.
vor 5 Mon.5 mo ago7 Min.7 min
Stop #300 - Here comes the digital euro
The legislative process for the digital euro has entered its final phase. In a few weeks, the ECON committee of the EU Parliament will vote on the Regulation, the ECB has opened the selection of partners
vor 4 Mon.4 mo ago7 Min.7 min
Stop #298 - Saylor's House of Cards
Strategy will sell bitcoin to pay dividends. The proportions are symbolic, but the gesture reveals the financial engineering built by Michael Saylor's company
vor 5 Mon.5 mo ago8 Min.8 min
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Stop #297 - In fork veritas
Three fork proposals in nine months, all destined to fail: the latest one is from Paul Sztorc. At this point in history, whoever tries to rewrite Bitcoin does it for ego or for money.
vor 5 Mon.5 mo ago9 Min.9 min
Stop #296 - The Code on Trial
On December 19th, Keonne Rodriguez turned himself in to serve five years in prison. His crime? Having written Samourai Wallet. And his story is inseparable from that of another developer
vor 5 Mon.5 mo ago10 Min.10 min
Stop #295 - Quantum Collectivism
Six developers sign BIP-361 to freeze bitcoins potentially vulnerable to the future quantum threat. A senseless precedent that Bitcoin cannot afford
vor 6 Mon.6 mo ago9 Min.9 min
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Stop #294 - Quantum Readiness
Just a few days after the release of the Google Quantum AI paper on the theoretical threat to Bitcoin cryptography, it turns out that the solution is already within the protocol, without any soft-fork to be scheduled
vor 6 Mon.6 mo ago7 Min.7 min
Stop #293 - Terrorism Q.B. (Quantum Basta)
Google announces a new milestone in quantum research, but the computer that breaks Bitcoin in nine minutes does not exist. Anyone telling you otherwise has pockets full of reasons to do so
vor 6 Mon.6 mo ago8 Min.8 min
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Stop #292 - The Orphan Block
On March 23rd, Bitcoin did exactly what it was designed to do. Someone saw a disaster in it.
vor 6 Mon.6 mo ago7 Min.7 min
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Stop #291 - Everyone's Weapon
Bitcoin doesn't choose sides. In Iran, the regime uses it to circumvent sanctions and civilians use it to escape the war. Is this a problem? No: it's one of its crucial features
vor 7 Mon.7 mo ago6 Min.6 min
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Stop #290 - LLM's favourite money
If an artificial intelligence could decide how to store and spend value, it would choose Bitcoin, confirms the Bitcoin Policy Institute. There's just one problem: machines don't decide
vor 7 Mon.7 mo ago6 Min.6 min
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Stop #289 - The Bitcoin Speakeasy
In a world dominated by CBDCs and AI agents, would Bitcoin become the exclusive domain of the wealthy? History suggests otherwise.
vor 7 Mon.7 mo ago6 Min.6 min