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Bitcoin Developers Move to Gauge Consensus on Covenants Soft Forks

A small, but significant development in Bitcoin’s much-debated decentralized consensus process is taking place, with some developers moving to publicly gauge sentiment of warring soft fork proposals that would augment the software rule set. Follow Rizzo on X. https://x.com/pete_rizzo_/ More…

Heat Your Home While Earning Bitcoin With Heatbit

Company Name: Heatbit Founder: Alex Busarov Date Founded: April 2020 Location of Headquarters: Remote Number of Employees: 25 Website: Public or Private? Private In early 2020, Alex Busarov was stuck in his Shanghai apartment during COVID. To quell his…

Want Another Bitcoin Country? Do Something About It.

Follow Frank on X. Bitcoin is its own network state, to borrow a term from Balaji Srinivasan. That is, while Bitcoin proponents aren’t bound to one geographical region (quite the opposite, actually) they have collective power and can enact change.…

Is Bitcoin Self-Custody Under Threat in Europe?

For centuries, self-custody has symbolized financial autonomy, enabling individuals to secure their wealth—from gold to cash—without intermediaries. Bitcoin extends this principle into the digital realm, offering a censorship-resistant, decentralized way to hold assets. Yet, upcoming European regulations under the Markets…

Why Bother Trying To Scale Bitcoin?

The public discussion around scaling in the last few years has become poisoned and captured by an incredibly toxic and defeatist attitude: “Why bother?” “Why bother trying to scale? Basic napkin math shows it’s impossible no matter what we do…

Don’t Sell MicroStrategy Your Bitcoin

Follow Nikolaus On 𝕏 Here For Daily Posts Today, MicroStrategy announced it purchased an additional 15,400 bitcoin for approximately $1.5 billion. This brings its total holdings to over 400,000 BTC, almost 2% of the entire bitcoin supply. MicroStrategy now owns…

Maximizing Bitcoin Accumulation – Beyond the Benchmark

Bitcoin has consistently outperformed all major asset classes over the past decade, solidifying its role as the benchmark for digital asset investors. For those committed to Bitcoin’s long-term vision, the ultimate financial goal often shifts from acquiring more dollars to…

Use Bitcoin Easily And Privately With Cake Wallet

Company Name: Cake Wallet Founders: Vik Sharma Date Founded: October 2017 Location of Headquarters: Saint Kitts and Nevis (and staff is remote) Number of Employees: 14 Website: Public or Private? Private When Vik Sharma isn’t serving as the CEO…

Safegcd’s Implementation Formally Verified

Introduction The security of Bitcoin, and other blockchains, such as Liquid, hinges on the use of digital signatures algorithms such as ECDSA and Schnorr signatures. A C library called libsecp256k1, named after the elliptic curve that the library operates on,…