Alloc Init proposes Shielded Bitcoin without a soft fork
The project uses zero-knowledge proofs and encrypted notes on Bitcoin
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Block adds Lightning to the x402 standard
The company adds Lightning support to the open protocol for AI agents
Russia keeps Bitcoin payment ban and advances CBDC
According to Tass, the digital ruble has been available for transactions since September 1
579,900 USDT stolen by malicious App Store app
Versions 1.1 and 1.2 included malicious modules
EU Kids Act proposal sets age-based online access
Age checks planned for social media and video-sharing platforms
FT: Saudi Arabia leaves mBridge CBDC project
According to the Financial Times, SAMA ended its participation after a proof of concept
ECB and EU central banks call for stablecoin reserve liquidity thresholds
The ESCB proposes replacing mandatory bank deposits for reserves, as Tether had requestedLearn
CoinJoin: comparison of tools to improve privacy on Bitcoin
Wasabi Wallet, Whirlpool and JoinMarket: operational models, decentralization, costs, usability and waiting times to increase the privacy of your UTXO.
Spark: the layer 2 launched by Lightspark
Lightspark introduces a layer 2 for instant payments, stablecoins and interoperability with Lightning.
Guide to using the Liquid Network
How to use Bitcoin’s sidechain: peg-in, peg-out, and swaps.Feature
594 bitcoin drained in fifteen minutes: what we know so far
In the early hours of 30 July an automated operation swept 500 single-sig addresses across four consecutive blocks. Evidence points to weak private keys generated at birth. No multisig wallet and no taproot address…
When the BIS discovers its own irrelevance
The central bank of central banks warns that dollar stablecoins bypass capital controls, fearing the erosion of its own relevance as an…
Dollar-yen: how inflation is used as foreign policy
The dollar-yen exchange rate manoeuvre reveals that money creation has become a variable of foreign policy
The wreck of BIP-110 and the eternal September
BIP-110 enters mandatory signaling with 2.53% miner support and stalls after two blocks. Supporters are now discussing a proof-of-work change: the creation…
The Trojan horse of institutional adoption
When banks build custody infrastructure on Bitcoin, they replicate the fractional-reserve logic on the only asset with a mathematically fixed supply in…
RGB Protocol on Bitcoin: from a Milan lab in 2015 to mainnet
RGB Protocol on Bitcoin took roughly ten years to move from a research lab in Milan in 2015 to a live asset…
Thirty-nine trillion reasons
American sovereign debt follows a fiscal trajectory that no central bank can correct from withinIndustry
ECB launches Pontes, a digital euro pilot for bank settlement
The system settles tokenised asset transactions in central bank money
Conseil d’État rejects suspension of DAC8 decree
The court rejects Bull Bitcoin and Paymium’s request for lack of urgency, without examining the decree’s legality.
Deutsche Bank prepares digital asset custody
The service is planned by the end of 2026 for European institutional and corporate clientsOpinion
You are not under investigation, but your movements are already tracked.
Flock Safety sells an easy promise to share: helping police recover a stolen car, locate a missing person, solve a crime. To keep that promise, its cameras also record your car passing by while…
The NSA wants access to all AI models. Where have we seen this before?
“We want access to all AI models and intend to exploit it.” Tim Kosiba, deputy director of the US National Security Agency,…
The NSA wants access to all AI models. Where have we seen this before?
“We want access to all AI models and intend to exploit it.” Tim Kosiba, deputy director of the US National Security Agency,…
