The U.S. government is escalating coordinated attacks on Bitcoin as politicians pivot from pretending to support Bitcoin to threatening Bitcoin in an attempt to fund political campaigns with Bitcoin donations. As Robert F. Kennedy Jr and countless other politicians have learned, pretending to support Bitcoin gets you plenty of
“How do I keep my coffee warm? I put it in a thermos! I need to insulate my energy so that no one steals it! If I take your Starbucks coffee and I put it in a cooler of ice and I drop it in the ice your coffee’s
In the movie Dark Night, Harvey Dent tells Batman, "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain." It's one of the best quotes, from one of the best films in cinema history. If one had to repurpose the quote
Love is Bitcoin®, a Bitcoin culture magazine and Lightning powered media brand which markets women's clothing to its 99.9% male audience, is facing backlash on X (Formerly Twitter) over a risqué new social media campaign "Bitties Out For Privacy", calling for women to show their
Growing concerns and controversy surrounding compliance policies at several p2p cryptocurrency exchanges have sparked significant debate and calls for boycotts, reminiscent of the backlash against Bud Light for its marketing decisions. Bisq, Hodl Hodl, AgoraDesk, RobotSats, and LocalCoinSwap do not provide users the ability to report identifying information such as
CNN is reportedly in talks with the governments of Iran, Israel, and the U.S. for a $2 billion TV deal which would give the media network exclusive rights to air coverage of the fake war between Israel and Iran. The deal reportedly includes licensing rights and even some say
Without a doubt the luckiest solo miner, and perhaps the luckiest individual, in recorded history found a block Sunday night and won the entire 6.25 Bitcoin block reward, worth approximately $400,000. What makes this so incredible is that the miner only had about 20 KH of power. To
Jimmy Song announced a major new initiative to train and support new developers to maintain and ossify Bitcoin Core. The initiative is part of a new partnership with fellow Bitcoin thought leader Michael Saylor aimed at protecting and cultivating NGU. Song announced details of the six-week coding bootcamp, which includes
A secretive board of blue chip PODCONF® podcasters and conference organizers, known simply as The Compliance Committee, approved the Tether waiver request by Jan3 Samson Mow announced today. The waiver allows Jan3, developers of the Aqua Wallet, to facilitate use of Tether without being considered non-compliant under PODCONF's
Lightning Network infrastructure and analytics company Amboss recently announced a new tool called Reflex to help customers make their lightning nodes OFAC Compliant. Reflex allows node runners to ensure their node enforces U.S. trade sanctions, foreign policy, and discriminates against some of the most non-compliant foreign state entities in
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Bitcoin nodes strategically located throughout the U.S. have begun broadcasting to the Bitcoin network a special new status 'ordWelcomeHere' which reportedly signals to Ordinals creators that their transactions are welcome and safe. Runners of the nodes said they hope more node runners will begin broadcasting the status
Soon users of some of the most popular custodial lightning wallets in North America will be able to rest easy knowing their micropayments are insured against loss of mobile device, private keys, are from being rugged by their custodian thanks to a groundbreaking new regulated insurance product developed by AnchorWatch.
The price of the controversial new memecoin called AuschwitzWoodenDoor isn't the only thing that's volatile. The coin, which trades under the ticker wodndor, has faced criticism, threats of censorship, and has been called antisemitic since it launched on Solana earlier this month. Now members of the
Windsor, Ontario – Canadian Bitcoin exchange Bull Bitcoin has been caught red handed using the Canadian Postal Service to accept Bitcoin purchase orders that do not require the customer to provide photo identification or any form of identification verification. U.S. intelligence has indicated they believe Bull Bitcoin founder Francis Pouliot
In an effort to raise support for the proposed Bitcoin soft fork outlined by Jeremy Rubin's BIP 119, otherwise known as OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (OP_CTV), or simply "covenants", proponents have penned a new term to help users understand how they work. Proponents will use the term