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Bitcoin’s BIP110 Moment: Three Possible Scenarios (Updated)

Aaron van Wirdum -
Will BIP110 fail, activate, or split Bitcoin? A look at the three most likely outcomes.
TECHNICAL

The End of the Closed-Source Era Is at Hand: Obscurity Was Never Security

Colin Crossman -
The Coldcard hack is a preview. When machines can read what humans couldn't (or just didn't), closed source stops being a category.
TECHNICAL

Lightning Labs Launches Wavelength: “Bitcoin on Easy Mode” for Developers and Autonomous Agents

Juan Galt -
Available immediately on Signet and testnet (mainnet invitation-only), Wavelength exposes the same API to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol so machines can pay machines in fractions of a cent while users retain full key control.
TECHNICAL

Bitcoin is NOT Changed by Proof Of Node

Juan Galt -
The proposal to temporarily restrict arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions lacks economic nodes, protocol developers, and hashrate. History from the 2017 UASF shows nodes succeed only with broad investor and developer weight behind them.
TECHNICAL

The Bitcoin Softfork That Tried to Police “Junk Data” — And Why It’s Already Failing

Brandon Black -
Bitcoin’s real power is that anyone willing to pay fees can write to the ledger. BIP-110’s backers want to change that for data-heavy transactions. The backlash reveals what’s truly at stake.
TECHNICAL

One Year Later: How Coldcard Q’s Key Teleport Delivers Secure Remote Key Management for Bitcoin Treasuries

Juan Galt -
Bitcoin users facing travel or emergency scenarios benefit from Coldcard Q’s mature Key Teleport implementation, which outperforms traditional Tails-OS + PGP setups and resisted advanced AI decryption attempts.
NEWS

Presidio Bitcoin Releases Quantum Readiness Paper

Shinobi -
Presidio Bitcoin releases new report, with plans to regularly update and maintain as a "living document" to keep track of the current state of research on making Bitcoin quantum safe.
NEWS

Demonstration of “Attack Blocks” On Bitcoin’s Signet Test Network

Shinobi -
This Wednesday, Bitcoin developers will demonstrate "attack blocks" taking advantage of a consensus vulnerability on the Signet test network.
PRINT

The Core Issue: Beneath The Binary, Verifying Trust

Mike Schmidt -
From The Core Issue: A look at what Bitcoin Core developers do to ensure the software running on your computer is actually the code they wrote.
PRINT

The Core Issue: Your Node Vs. The Digital Wilderness

Julien Urraca -
From The Core Issue: A look at what it takes to defend your Bitcoin node against the myriad of threats from the wider internet.
PRINT

The Core Issue: Outrunning Entropy, Why Bitcoin Can’t Stand Still

willcl-ark -
From The Core Issue: A breakdown at the optimizations and fine-tuning done to speed up Initial Block Download for Bitcoin Core users.
TECHNICAL

Bitcoin Has a Golden Opportunity With AI Agents, It’s Time to Build

Matt Corallo -
Bitcoin finally has a real payments advantage in the world of agentic payments. We all have to pitch in to capitalize on it.
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