Elon Musk confirmed SpaceX and Tesla are exploring a merger, and both stocks jumped along with bitcoin, which climbed above $84,000. The two firms hold 30,221 BTC combined, but shareholders — not Musk — will decide.
Google cut error rates on its Willow quantum chip 40-fold in a new Science paper. For Bitcoin, whose signatures a quantum computer could one day break, the countdown just got a little more real — though not urgent yet.
Anthropic launched a free AI scanner, OSS Scanner. Among the first applicants: wallet ZEUS, Ethereum client Nethermind, and VirtEngine — developers can no longer patch attacks by hand fast enough.
US bitcoin ETFs pulled in $2.4 billion in a single week, their biggest haul since October 2025, flipping 2026 flows positive for the first time. By Friday, though, daily buying had collapsed 87%.
Lightning Network promises bitcoin payouts in seconds instead of a half-hour wait at rush hour. Here's how payment channels actually work, which exchangers benefit, and who ends up with extra overhead instead of speed.
Bitcoin broke $87,000 for the first time since January as a short squeeze wiped out hundreds of millions in bearish bets — real ETF demand, or just a liquidation cascade?
The US Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance the CLARITY Act, stalling America's crypto market-structure bill. Bitcoin slid to about $75,850 amid nearly $570 million in liquidations.
Blockstream is refusing to pay a 10% 'bug bounty' for the $47 million in bitcoin still missing after a hack on its Liquid sidechain, calling the demand extortion and vowing to pursue law enforcement.
Liquid Network, Blockstream's Bitcoin sidechain, lost nearly all its reserves — about 4,000 BTC — to a software bug, not a stolen key. Most of the money came back within a day, but not all of it.
A critical BTCPay Server flaw exposed the credentials protecting Lightning nodes, letting hackers drain wallets at Foundation and Citadel21. A patch is out now, but updating alone won't undo the theft.
Singapore's Poolin, which once controlled a fifth of Bitcoin's hashrate, has filed for bankruptcy. The firm owes $164 million to 11,700 users whose funds have been frozen since 2022.
Nine of the biggest names in institutional Bitcoin, including BlackRock and Coinbase, have formed an alliance with a $15 million fund to prepare the network for quantum computing threats.
On July 13, US authorities moved nearly $288 million in seized bitcoin and ether to Coinbase Prime, instantly fueling speculation about a possible sale of the strategic reserve.
June was the worst month on record for U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs: $4.5 billion withdrawn. On July 3, Fidelity and Ark led a $222M reversal after a miss on U.S. jobs data eased rate-hike fears.
Strategy filed an 8-K unveiling a five-part Digital Credit Capital Framework: up to $1.25B in authorized Bitcoin sales, a 12% STRC dividend, and a $2.55B USD reserve floor.
Bitcoin closes the second quarter of 2026 below $60,000, logging a Q2 decline of about 12% after a 22% fall in Q1. Back-to-back losing quarters to start a year has happened only twice before in Bitcoin's history.
CZ proposed freezing Satoshi's 1M BTC if coins stay unmoved after Bitcoin's quantum-resistant upgrade. The crypto community is split: market protection versus property rights.
Lightning Network offers instant Bitcoin transfers at near-zero cost. Worth it for exchanger owners? An honest breakdown of real benefits, operational overhead, and when integration pays off.
Microsoft has detailed CryptoBandits, a Windows trojan spreading via USB drives since February 2026. It swaps wallet addresses in the clipboard and exfiltrates seed phrases over the Tor network.
France's ANSSI will stop certifying products without quantum-safe encryption from 2027. According to Glassnode, some 1.92M BTC—nearly 10% of supply—faces structural risk by 2030.
