Bitcoin Depot shuttered 9,700 ATMs after a 49% revenue drop and filed Chapter 11, joining miners like NFN8, BitRiver and Bitfarms that exited amid price weakness, high costs and regulatory pressure.…
Bitcoin has dropped 7% in 2026 while mining ETFs like WGMI surge over 50%. Post-halving efficiency, cost leverage, and AI data center pivots drive the split even as ETF outflows hit $1.47B amid rising yields and geopolitical risks.…
Most Bitcoin investors watch price. Few watch what drives it. Global liquidity — M2, Fed balance sheet, Reverse Repo, TGA, credit spreads — has historically led Bitcoin by weeks to months. When liquidity expands, Bitcoin tends to follow.…
Bitcoin has no boss. No foundation that votes on changes, no CEO who decides the roadmap, no shareholders' meeting, no token-holder vote. But the protocol does evolve. Slowly, contentiously, through a process nobody designed but everybody recognizes.…
Started in 2023. Bought ASICs thinking I'd build a side income for my family. Ended up with 9 ASICs and 3 GPU rigs running in my basement. Sounded like a beehive down there. Eventually moved to immersion cooling just to keep the peace at home.…
My solar panels create more electricity than I can use, what is a good suggestion for a setup for mining when electricity is free? submitted by /u/bradwwww [link] [comments]
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #407 is here: - announces the responsible disclosure of a vulnerability that allowed a remote peer to crash Core Lightning nodes - links to transcripts from a recent Bitcoin Core developer meeting - Optech Newsletter #407 Podcast…
I’ve been holding crypto since 2021, mostly BTC, but honestly I’m getting tired of just letting it sit there. Every time I want to actually use it, it feels like a whole process.…
A pseudonymous claimant, “Noah Doe,” alongside two Wyoming LLCs, has filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court seeking recognition as the rightful owner of 39,069 dormant Bitcoin addresses containing roughly 3.8 million BTC—valued at about $293 billion.…
What is one thing most Bitcoin holders believe today that you think will turn out to be wrong in the next 10 years? submitted by /u/Current-Preference57 [link] [comments]
I had bitcoin in a Lumi wallet. I had not logged on in a while, typed in Lumi to google and went to the first page up top ( web.lumiwallet.org ) I typed in my recovery phrase, then was wondering why my balance was loading for so long.…
I bought a large lump sum of IBIT in a registered account because I wanted Bitcoin exposure with tax advantages. I now realize there are trade-offs: I don’t hold the underlying asset directly, there are management fees, and I ended up buying near a market…
I know we're still in the bear market, but timewise this is quite an unexpected dump in the last days, right? 12% in the last 2 weeks. No real macro indicators, positive news on war, stocks are flying worldwide. Is everyone fleeing into stocks?…
Quick background if you have not run into it: the 1000 BTC Challenge is an on-chain puzzle from 2015. Someone funded 160 addresses whose private keys sit in deliberately increasing ranges (key N is between 2N-1 and 2N), and in 2023 the prizes were bumped…
A lot of people assume self-custody means making everything way more complicated. But honestly, once you use COLDCARD, you realize a secure setup can still be pretty straightforward.…
Yesterday's institutional outflow data showed BlackRock's IBIT shedding roughly 2,424 BTC (around $178M). Most mainstream headlines are immediately reading this as a bearish signal, but digging into the raw numbers tells a completely different story.…
Brendan Sorsby’s most recent betting scandal that has rocked the college sports world is an indictment of fiat and our modern culture more than anyone thinks.…
