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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…

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…

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,…