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Every Bitcoin read CryptoBloggers has picked: 365 so far, 315 in the last 30 days, strongest first under “Start here” and newest first below.
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Paid in bitcoin: can your employer follow what you spend?
Explains how an employer paid in bitcoin can track the wallet's spending through output sizes and known addresses, a real privacy leak.
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Bitcoin Security Expert Jameson Lopp: Cyberattacks on “Exponential” Path
Interview with Jameson Lopp on AI-accelerated bug hunting and the shift to real-time defense in Bitcoin security.
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Bitcoin miners' move into AI is creating a new market for trading computing power
Luxor raised $16M to expand from bitcoin mining into AI compute hardware and a market for trading computing power.
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Zcash co-founder proposes ending grants subsidy, citing $125 million treasury
Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe proposes ending automatic grants funding, citing a treasury valued above $125 million. A real governance debate worth following.
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Zcash co-founder calls to stop funding ‘over $125M’ grants program
Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe argues ZCG has enough funding and wants new ZEC issuance redirected to a network reserve.
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Bitcoin ETFs claw back $110M after $774M exit
US spot Bitcoin ETFs posted about $202 million in October net outflows despite a Monday rebound.
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Strive Bitcoin purchase adds 6,182 BTC for $511.4 million, lifting holdings to 43,000 BTC as the company expands its preferred-stock funding strategy.
Strive reports a 6,182 BTC purchase for $511.4 million, bringing holdings to 43,000 BTC via preferred-stock funding.
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Zcash co-founder proposes ending grants funding, citing $125 million treasury
Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe proposes ending the grants committee's 8% share of new ZEC, redirecting it to a reserve for future miners while the committee keeps funds already received.
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Blink Wallet Adds Inactivity Fee to Custodial Accounts, Accelerating Migration to Self Custody
Blink Wallet will charge a $1 monthly fee on custodial accounts inactive for 12 months, with refunds on login. The move nudges users toward self-custody.
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Coinbase Institutional Co-CEO: Bitcoin’s “Second Wave” of Institutional Capital has Arrived
Coinbase Institutional co-CEO says institutional capital is returning to Bitcoin, driven by stablecoin rails; company-sourced perspective.
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Is Mining Centralization A Threat for Bitcoin?
Explains why mining pool concentration is a concern but not an existential threat to Bitcoin's properties.
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Bitcoin Wallet Fixes Critical Flaw That Redirected Funds to Attackers
Electrum fixed a critical flaw where rogue servers could replace pending transactions and redirect bitcoin to attacker addresses.
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BTC Market Pulse: Week 44
Glassnode's weekly view: bitcoin near $80k after a failed push to $85k, with longs paying up and ETF buyers stepping back.
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Strategy’s Weekly STRC Buyback Climbs to $205 Million While Its Bitcoin Stack Stays Put
Strategy's weekly STRC buyback rose to $205 million, cutting its USD cash nearly in half while its bitcoin holdings stayed unchanged.
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Strive’s Bitcoin Treasury Reaches 43,000 BTC as It Files a $1 Billion SATS ATM
Strive now holds about 43,000 BTC after buying 6,182 BTC for roughly $511 million, and filed for a $1 billion SATS preferred stock ATM.
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Strategy (MSTR) Pauses Bitcoin Buying and Spends $205 Million on Preferred Stock
Strategy skipped bitcoin buys for one week and spent $205M buying back STRC preferred stock instead.
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Strategy skips Bitcoin purchases, spends $205M on STRC buybacks
Strategy paused Bitcoin buys and spent $205M on STRC buybacks, cutting its USD cash by 46%.
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Strategy Pauses Bitcoin Buying, Spends $205M Buying Back STRC
Strategy paused bitcoin buying and spent $205M repurchasing STRC preferred, drawing its USD cash down to $242.4M.
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We made the bitcoin-dev mailing list readable: 15 years, 24,699 messages, one page per thread, free
A readable mirror of the bitcoin-dev mailing list archive, one page per thread, useful for anyone following protocol debates.
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Researcher Cracks 'Steal My Bitcoin' Challenge With PHP Exploit
A researcher cracked a 'Steal My Bitcoin' challenge via a PHP exploit, and the operator had to pay out after the server held the wrong wallet key.
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Malicious Electrum Servers Steal Bitcoin by Baiting Users Into Fee Bumps
Malicious Electrum servers baited users into fee-bump actions that stole bitcoin; users on versions before 4.8.3 should upgrade.
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Looking for interoperable Miniscript policy – Nunchuk accepts it, Sparrow & Liana reject it
A Bitcoin user reports Miniscript vault policies that Nunchuk accepts but Sparrow and Liana reject, a useful interoperability issue.
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Over 11 million bitcoin has no known owner. Here's what it means
Analysis of over 11 million bitcoin held in unidentified wallets and what it implies about retail holders; includes a caveat worth reading.
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Bitcoin wallet bug let rogue servers steal funds when users tried to speed up payments
A Bitcoin wallet flaw let rogue servers swap in fake transactions and raise fees, and at least one user lost bitcoin before a patch.
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Strategy, Strive face balancing act between bitcoin buying and preferred stock dividends
Strategy and Strive use preferred stock to fund bitcoin purchases, now about 136,000 BTC, raising dividend-obligation questions.
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Bitcoin’s wealthy holders turning to loans and yield as investment habits mature: Xapo CEO
Xapo CEO says wealthy bitcoin holders increasingly borrow against BTC and seek yield; a useful but interview-based trend read.
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One unknown Bitcoin miner found 4 blocks in ~20 hours — solo miner or something else?
Redditor reports one address collecting coinbase rewards from four blocks in about 20 hours; a possible pool or solo-miner question, with limited verification.
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How much BTC does it take to retire? I ran $3k–$10k a month through three price paths
A free bitcoin retirement simulator models cyclical price paths to estimate BTC needed for $3k–$10k monthly spending over 30 years.
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Bitcoin Core Ends Long Embargoes for Bugs AI Can Rediscover
Bitcoin Core will fast-track fixes for bugs AI can easily rediscover, dropping long embargoes for those issues.
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Bitcoin Core Rewrites Security Policy as LLMs Make Some Bugs Easy to Rediscover
Bitcoin Core will ship fixes faster for bugs a simple LLM prompt could find, changing its severity-based disclosure timeline.