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Quantum Alliance forms amid warnings 6.4 million bitcoin face future quantum threat
Nine crypto firms formed a Quantum Alliance to prepare for quantum attacks, with 6.4 million BTC flagged as exposed. They disagree on timing and on freezing vulnerable coins.
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LayerTree: a non-custodial scaling solution on bitcoin that connects to Lightning. A single UTXO can hold the balance of millions of users as an off-chain Merkle-sum tree.
LayerTree proposes a non-custodial bitcoin scaling design where one UTXO holds balances for millions of users via covenants and a Merkle-sum tree.
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Bitcoin may seek 20-month trend line reclaim before new record highs: CryptoQuant
CryptoQuant's cycle tool suggests Bitcoin may first reclaim a key 20-month moving average before testing new highs. This is a technical-analysis take, not hard data.
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Eclair DoS, LN-GAP - Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #427
Optech covers Eclair denial-of-service vulnerabilities in older versions and a proposed scheme for multi-round contracts inside Lightning channels.
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Bitcoin ETFs Lost $65 Million In A Day. One BlackRock Fund Accounted For Every Dollar.
Bitcoin ETF outflows of $65 million in a day, nearly all from one BlackRock fund.
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Capital B reports $78M H1 loss driven by Bitcoin impairment charge
Capital B, Europe's second-largest Bitcoin treasury, reported a $78M H1 2026 loss from a Bitcoin impairment while raising $30M and growing holdings 11%.
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Russia Will Soon Ban Peer-to-Peer Bitcoin Trading, Central Bank Confirms
Russia's central bank confirms peer-to-peer bitcoin and crypto trading will be banned after July 1, 2027, with all trades routed through approved brokers or exchanges.
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Public bitcoin miners spent about $75,500 to mine each BTC in Q2, while BTC ended June at $58,400
Public bitcoin miners spent about $75,500 per BTC mined in Q2, well above the $58,400 June close, squeezing miner economics.
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US Hoovers up Bitcoin While the World Runs on Its Digital Dollars: Report
Chainalysis data shows the US holds a large share of bitcoin while much of the world uses dollar stablecoins.
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Is Strategy’s STRC Buyback Loop Running Out of Cash?
Analysis of whether Strategy's STRC preferred stock buyback program can continue, as STRC has fallen about 25% below its $100 target and the company has not raised money through it since May.
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Latin America’s MSTR: How OranjeBTC is Running the Saylor Playbook in Brazil | Gui Gomes
OranjeBTC CEO explains BTC-backed lending and bitcoin treasury strategy in Brazil.
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One in four bitcoin is quantum exposed because of address reuse. Learn why that's a problem, and how to fix (most) of it without rushing.
Explains that about a quarter of bitcoin is quantum-exposed through address reuse and how to mitigate much of it.
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Babylon advances native Bitcoin lending proposal on Aave V4
Babylon's proposal to bring native Bitcoin collateral to Aave V4 has moved to a new governance stage, but votes and security reviews remain before launch.
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UK chances of keeping £3.8bn bitcoin haul rise after High Court ruling
UK court ruling improves chances the government keeps a £3.8bn bitcoin haul.
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Bitcoin mining pool once handling 2.3% of network shuts after hashrate falls 65%
Binance Pool, once about 2.3% of Bitcoin hashrate, is shutting down after its hashrate fell from 26 EH/s to about 9 EH/s; remaining miners must switch providers by Nov. 10.
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Bitcoin miners plunge up to 13% in Wall Street’s worst selloff since July
Bitcoin miners TeraWulf, Core Scientific, Cipher Mining and IREN fell over 12% in a selloff tied to hotter inflation hitting AI infrastructure stocks.
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Russia’s Central Bank Authorizes Sberbank to Exchange Cryptocurrencies
Russia's central bank has authorized Sberbank to exchange cryptocurrencies, with bitcoin-related products planned for December.
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Standard Chartered Debuts Bitcoin Trading For Wealthy UAE Clients
Standard Chartered lets wealthy UAE clients buy bitcoin through their bank accounts. Modest institutional news.
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'It Can Take Years': Coinbase Presses for Bitcoin Quantum Migration to Start Now
Coinbase argues Bitcoin's quantum migration must start now, laying out requirements for block space, custody and dormant coins.
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Babylon Advances Native Bitcoin Collateral Plan for Aave V4
Babylon proposes native Bitcoin collateral for Aave V4 that settles permissionless liquidations using WBTC. Risk settings and votes are pending.
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Strive buys $235 million in bitcoin as warrant exercises yield $369 million
Strive bought 2,822 BTC for $235 million, funded by $369.2 million in warrant exercise proceeds. A routine treasury purchase, moderately newsworthy.
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The gap between "store of value" marketing and actually using crypto as peer-to-peer money
Argues the peer-to-peer cash use case for bitcoin is blocked by fee and routing friction, not store-of-value framing.
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Strategy’s preferred stock financing may cost it bitcoin, K33 argues
K33 argues Strategy would accumulate more bitcoin by issuing common stock rather than preferred shares.
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How Bitcoin Works
A long primer covering Bitcoin's rule enforcement, monetary design, fees, privacy, scaling, mining economics and Lightning.
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Bitcoin’s Quantum-Resistant Upgrade Has to Work for Big Custodians, Coinbase Tells Developers
Coinbase tells Bitcoin developers the quantum-resistant upgrade must work for large custodians, flagging signing risks; a substantive input to a key protocol debate.
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Researchers Build Post-Quantum Defense For Lightning Network
Researchers propose a post-quantum signature defense for the Lightning Network, a relevant security advance for Bitcoin's payment layer.
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Clara Shikhelman, Elias Rohrer - Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #426 Recap Podcast
Bitcoin Optech podcast covering BIP324 message type IDs, BIP tag conventions, and a proposal for private onchain transfers without consensus changes.
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Coinbase, which holds 5% of all bitcoin, wants the quantum fix started now
Coinbase argues bitcoin should prepare for quantum computers now, proposing flexible addresses, a backup quantum-proof key, and a debate over lost coins.
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Coinbase: Working Together on Bitcoin’s Post-Quantum Readiness
Coinbase outlines its work on preparing Bitcoin for post-quantum cryptography; relevant policy and security news, but the snippet is thin.
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How credible are the allegations about Blockstream’s mining business?
Asks for credibility assessment of serious allegations that Blockstream's cloud mining is a Ponzi scheme; the sourcing is a single partisan Substack.