Blockstream launches trustless swap service between Lightning and mainchain
With Blockstream Swaps, users move funds between Lightning Network and the Bitcoin mainchain without a custodian, weeks after Boltz suspended operations.
BTCPay Server: 3 BTC bounty launched for fund recovery after exploit
A vulnerability in versions prior to 2.4.2 exposed LND credentials of connected Lightning nodes; the community responds with a recovery bounty and…
Riot Platforms leases 191 MW to Anthropic for $9.1 billion
The Bitcoin miner transfers capacity from its Texas campus to an AI lab for twenty years, as bitcoin mining falls below two-thirds…
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…
Glassnode integrates x402 for on-chain payments to AI agents
Glassnode's on-chain data catalogue now accepts per-API-call payments via the x402 protocol, with no account and no API key
Boltz halts swaps: AI-assisted attacks outpace the team’s ability to patch
Non-custodial bridge Boltz has suspended swaps indefinitely: AI-assisted attackers iterate faster than the team can patch. In response, the Bitcoin Red Team…
Coldcard bug, weak seeds generated since 2021: “Funds are at risk, move them now”
Less than 24 hours after the 594 BTC theft, Coinkite publishes a security advisory and technical review: seed generation on Coldcard Mk3…
Interviews
Igor Neumann: “Since the launch of Firefish we haven’t recorded a single liquidation due to price drops”
Atlas21 interviews the COO of Firefish who explains how the marketplace is bringing Bitcoin lending to retail users and traditional institutions through a non-custodial model.
John Carvalho: “Bitcoin doesn’t scale. We need to scale trust, not complexity”
According to the CEO of Synonym, speaking at the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano, the solution to scaling Bitcoin is…
Dan Gould (Payjoin Dev Kit): “We aim to accelerate Payjoin adoption in 2026”
The lead developer of PDK spoke to Atlas21's microphones explaining how Payjoin can raise the privacy level for all Bitcoin…
Samson Mow: “Governments will want bitcoin because it’s valuable, just as they did with gold”
The CEO of Jan3 explains the strategy for bitcoin adoption by States and talks about Aqua Wallet and the Dolphin…
Learn
What is a soft-fork?
A soft fork is a backward-compatible update to the previous version of the software that introduces a change leading to…
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.
Guide to using the Liquid Network
How to use Bitcoin’s sidechain: peg-in, peg-out, and swaps.
Feature
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 of a new shitcoin.
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…
Pavel Durov and the price of non-compliant communication
The FSB charges Durov with terrorism: when a platform escapes surveillance, the state turns the refusal to cooperate into a criminal offence
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…
Privacy: at least China is honest
Chinese prosecutors want to use mixer usage as evidence of money laundering: the logic already written into Western KYC systems.
Industry
IMF calls on Brazil to impose controls on digital asset flows
An International Monetary Fund paper finds that digital asset transfers in Brazil exceed traditional channel volumes and calls for stronger…
Claude private chats indexed by Google and Bing
Anthropic enabled public sharing of conversations without warning users that search engine crawlers would make them retrievable by anyone.
94% of “tokenized” stocks on the market are centralized
A single California broker holds more than $1.5 billion in shares underlying stock tokens, while the SEC warns that third-party…
