FOSS rests on four essential freedoms defined by the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative’s ten criteria. Licenses that withhold commercial rights, such as MIT plus Commons Clause, shrink the reviewer pool and shift the burden back onto the vendor.
Clay Garrett’s investigation matched the 1,082.65 BTC sweeps to a major data provider’s internal logs with “extraordinary specificity.” The coins remain unmoved.
Bitcoin company leaders and open-source developers report Chinese AI models delivering superior results on defensive cybersecurity work that restricted American frontier systems refuse, forcing reliance on them to secure critical infrastructure.
Casa customer data indicates part of the 233k BTC flow came from single-key Ledger and Trezor users shifting to multisig and from multisig users removing Coldcard devices after the July 30 attack waves.
Breez’s new open-source Glow PWA turns Bitcoin into everyday money. Users send stablecoins from their BTC balance via Spark, log in with Passkeys, and keep full self-custody.
Triggered by the Coldcard RNG vulnerability that drained over $100 million, the Bitcoin Red Team led by Calle and Rob Hamilton has already filed 4,962 findings across 390 open-source projects using frontier AI models.
The Coldcard security failure has shaken Bitcoin's confidence in hardware wallets—but abandoning self-custody would mean abandoning the very reason Bitcoin exists. History suggests the lesson isn't to trust custodians again, but to build stronger, more resilient ways to hold our own keys.
NVK stated that AI-assisted code review can now find latent bugs at a speed outpacing even the industry’s most seasoned experts, calling it a sober reality of the new AI paradigm.
The open-source Bitchat app, designed to work without internet or central servers, continued functioning and spreading peer-to-peer after authorities targeted its GitHub code.
After three days of validation and half a day of deep scanning, the findings force a hard look at what “content on the blockchain” really means for ordinary node operators.
